I Just Can’t Wait to be King Lyrics

[SIMBA]
Kings don't need advice from little hornbills for a start

[ZAZU]
If this is where the monarchy is headed, count me out!
Out of service, out of Africa - I wouldn't hang about... aagh!
This child is getting wildly out of wing

[SIMBA]
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!

Everybody look left
Everybody look right
Everywhere you look I'm standing in the spotlight!

[ZAZU]
Not yet!

[ANIMALS]
Let every creature go for broke and sing
Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing
It's gonna be King Simba's finest fling

[ANIMALS & SIMBA]
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!
Oh I just can't wait... to be king!
[ZAZU, MUFFLED]
I beg your pardon, madam, but...
GET OFF! Simba? Nala!

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Simba gains permission from his mother to take his friend Nala to see “the watering hole”, but unknown to their parents he really plans to go to the dangerous and forbidden Elephant Graveyard. However, with Zazu the hornbill babysitting the pair, the two cubs need to hatch a plan to distract the bird so they can escape. Simba decides to prove to Zazu that he will indeed by a good king despite the bird’s protests, and on the opening beat of the song the Pride Lands turn into a colorful playground in which Simba, Nala, and the animals of the Pride Lands can have some fun.

During the song Simba expresses his excitement at being the future king. Given the central motif of the film is Simba maturing to accept his responsibilities to his kingdom, this is playful yet foreboding.

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Release Date
May 30, 1994
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