I just can’t wait to be king
G ~ ~ + G - C - G - G - D (4x)
G
1. I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware !
C G
Well, I've never seen a king
of beasts with quite so little hair.
I'm gonna
be the mane event like no king was before,
C G
I'm brushing up on looking
down, I'm working on my ROAR !
Am D
Thus far a
rather uninspiring thing.
C D G
Oh, I just can't wait to be king !
G C G
(spoken :
You've rather a long way to go, young master, if you think...)
C
No one saying do this (now when I said that, I …),
Am
no one saying be there (what I meant was...).
D
No one saying stop that (look, what you don't realize...),
G
no one saying see here (now
see here !).
C Am D
C D G ~
Free to run around all day, free
to do it all my way!
G
2. I think it's time that you and I arranged a heart to heart,
C G
kings don't need advice from
little hornbills for a start.
If this is where the monarchy
is headed, count me out !
C
G
Out of service, out of
Am
D
This child is getting wildly
out of wing.
C D G
Oh, I just can't wait to be king !
(midi moves up half a note to capo 1st here)
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C Am
Everybody look left, everybody
look right,
D G
everywhere you look I'm standing
in the spotlight !
- - - - -
Not yet!
C Am D
Let every creature go for
broke and sing !
C Am D
Let's hear it in the herd and
on the wing !
C Am D
It's gonna
be King Simba's finest fling !
C D G - C - G
Oh, I just can't wait to be king !
C D G - C - G
Oh, I just can't wait to be king !
C D - G - C - G - G - G
Oh, I just can't wai…..t
- to be king!
(from “The Lion King”)