The Morning Report
Music by Elton John
Lyrics bye tim Rice

ZAZU
It's an honor and a privilege, a duty I preform
With due sense of decorum and with pride
With deference and great respect very much the norm
Plus a bit of sycphancy on the side
To lay before my ruler all the facts about his realm
To fil him in on all the beastly news

MUFASA
Yes, yes Zazu, get on with it!

ZAZU
In order that his majesty stands sturdy at the helm
Aware of all the beastly views

MUFASA
Zazu! The morning report!

ZAZU
Er-yes, Sire-the morning report

Chimps are going ape, giaragges remain above it all
Elephants remember, though just what I can't recall
Crocodiles are snapping up fresh offers from the
banks
Showed intrest in my nest egg but I quickly said
"No thanks!"
We haven't paid the hornbills and the vultures have
a hunch
Not everyone invited will be coming back from
lunch

This is the morning report
Gives you the long and the short
Every gruunt, roar, and snort
Not a tale I distort
On the morning report

MUFASA
what are you doing son?

YOUNG SIMBA
Pouncing

MUFASA
Let an old pro show you how it's done


ZAZU

The buffalo have got a beef             MUFASA

About this season's grass               Stay low to the ground

Warthogs have been

thwarted

In attempts to save their gas           YOUNG SIMBA

Flamingos in the pink and               Yeah, stay low!

Chasing secretary birds

Saffron is this season's color          MUFASA

Seen in all the herds                   Shh,not a sound

Moving down the rank                    Take it slow

and file

To the near bottom rung                 One more step

Far toom many beetles are

Quite frankjly in the dung              Then pounce!

 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!
YOUNG SIMBA
This is the morning report
Gives you the long and the short
Every grunt, roar, and snort
Not a tale I distort
On the morning report

MUFASA/ZAZU/YOUNG SIMBA
This is the morning report
Gives you the long and the short
Every grunt, roar, and snort
Not a tale I distort
On the morning report


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