I Just Can't Wait to be King
From Walt Disney's The Lion King
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Tim Rice
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[Simba] I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware!
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[Zazu] Well, I've never seen a king of beasts with quite so little hair.
[Simba] I'm gonna be the main event, like no king was before!
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I'm brushing up I'm looking down. I'm working on my roar!
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[Zazu] Thus far, a rather uninspiring thing.
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[Simba] Oh I just can't wait to be king!
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No one saying 'do this,' [Zazu: Now when I said that I...]
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No one saying 'be there,' [What I meant was the...]
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No one saying 'stop that,' [But what you don't realize...]
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No one saying 'see here.' [Now see here!]
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Free to run around all day, [Well, that's definitley out.]
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Free to do it it all my way!
[Zazu] I think it's time that you and I arranged a heart to heart.
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[Simba] Kings don't need advice from little hornbills for a start.
[Zazu] If this is where the monarchy is headed, count me out!
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Out of service, out of Africa. I wouldn't hang about.
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This child is getting wildly out of wing!
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[Simba] Oh I just can't wait to be king!
(Instumental: |Ab Db Ab |Ab Eb/Ab|Ab Db/Ab Ab|Ab |)
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[Simba] Ev'rybody look left, ev'rybody look right.
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Ev'rywhere you look, I'm standing in the spotlight.
[Zazu] Not yet!
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[Chorus]Let ev'ry creature go for broke and sing.
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Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing.
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It's gonna be King Simba's finest fling.
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[Simba] Oh I just can't wait to be king.
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Oh I just can't wait to be king.
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Oh I just can't wait to be king.
