The Morning Report

Geoff Hoyle Featuring Samuel E. Wright, Scott

[ZAZU]

It's an honor and a privilege, a duty I perform

With due sense of decorum and with pride

With deference and great respect very much the norm

Plus a hint of sycophancy on the side

To lay before my ruler all the facts about his realm

To fill him in on all the beastly news



[MUFASA]

[spoken] Yes, yes, Zazu, get on with it!



[ZAZU]

In order that His Majesty stands sturdy at the helm

Aware of all the fauna's latest views



[MUFASA]

[spoken] Zazu! The morning report!



[ZAZU]

[spoken] Er - yes, Sire - the morning report



Chimps are going ape, firaffes remain above it all

Elephants remember, though just what I can't recall

Crocodiles are snapping up fresh offers from the banks

Showed interes 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 (sung) will be coming back from lunch

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]

[spoken] What are you doing, son?



[YOUNG SIMBA]

[spoken] Pouncing



[MUFASA]

[spoken] Let an old pro show you how it's done



[ZAZU]

[spoken] The buffalo have got a beef

About this season's grass

Warthogs have been thwarted

In attempts to save their gas

Flamingoes in the pink

Chasing secretary birds

Saffron is theis season's color

Seen in all the herds

Moving down the rank and file

To near the bottom rung

Far too many beetles are



[sung] Quite frankly in the dung

Aaaaaaaaak!



[MUFASA]



Stay low to the ground

Shh, not a sound

Take it slow

One more step

Then pounce!



[YOUNG SIMBA]

Yeah, stay low!



This is the morning report

Gives you the long and the short

Every grunt, roar and snort

Not