If I were King of the Forest, Not queen, not duke, not prince.
My regal robes of the forest, would be satin, not cotton, not chintz.
I'd command each thing, be it fish or fowl.
With a woof and a woof and a royal growl - woof.
As I'd click my heel, all the trees would kneel.
And the mountains bow and the bulls kowtow.
And the sparrow would take wing - If I - If I - were King!
Each rabbit would show respect to me. The chipmunks genuflect to me.
Though my tail would lash, I would show compash
For every underling!
If I - If I - were King!
Just King!
Monarch of all I survey -- Mo--na-a-a--a-arch Of all I survey!
You're majesty, if you were King, you weren't be afraid of anything?
Not nobody! Not no how!
Not even a rhinoceros?
Impoceros!
How about a hippopotamus?
Why, I'd thrash him from top to bottomus.
Supposing you met an elephant?
I'd wrap him up and sellaphant.
What if it were a brontosaurus?
I'd show him who's King of the forest!
How!? How!?
Courage.
What makes a king out of a slave? Courage.
What makes the flag on the mast wave? Courage.
What makes the elephant charge his tusks
in the misty mist
or the dusky dusk
What makes the musk rat guard his musk?
Courage.
What makes the Sphinx the seventh wonder?
Courage
What makes the dawn come up like thunder?
Courage.
What makes the hotness not so hot?
What puts the ape in apricot?
What do they got that I ain't got?
Courage.
You can say that again.