Hakuna Matata

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 **•**  Donald Glover **•**  Nathan Lane **•**  JD McCrary **•**  Ernie Sabella **•**  Jason Weaver **•**  Rob Lowe **•**  Seth Rogen **•**  Billy Eichner **•**  Joseph Williams **•**  Kevin Schon **•**  Joshua Rush **•**  Max Charles **•**  Eden Riegel **•**  Diamond White **•**  Atticus Shaffer **•**  Dusan Brown **•**  Gabrielle Union

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―Pumbaa[src] | ”

**"Hakuna Matata"** is a song composed by Elton John for *The Lion King: Revisited*. It was released on May 31, 1994, as originally part of the soundtrack for *The Lion King*. The song has made reappearances in spin-off films and series such as *The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa* (in which it is used as the opening theme), *The Lion King 1½*, *The Lion Guard*, and the stage musical. It is sung by Simba, Pumbaa, Timon, and the Lion Guard, Kiara, and Nala in a dream sequence as Simba accepts the "Hakuna Matata" lifestyle.

## Lyrics

* Raising Simba version
* Epilogue: An Important Coronation version

**Timon:**

*Hakuna Matata*
*What a wonderful phrase*

**Pumbaa:**

*Hakuna Matata*

*Ain't no passing craze*

**Timon:**

*It means no worries*

*For the rest of your days*

*It's our problem-free*

*Philosophy*

*Hakuna Matata*

**Simba:** (spoken)

Hakuna Matata?

**Pumbaa:** (spoken)

Yeah, it's our motto.

**Simba:** (spoken)

What's a motto?

**Timon:** (spoken)

Nothing! What's a motto with you? Ahh ha ha ha…

**Pumbaa:** (spoken)

You know, kid, these two words will solve all your problems.

**Timon:** (spoken)

That's right! Take Pumbaa for example.

**Timon:**

*Why, when he was a young warthog*

**Pumbaa:**

*When I was a young warthog!*

**Timon:** (spoken)

Very nice.

**Pumbaa:** (spoken)

Thanks!

**Timon:**

*He found his aroma lacked a certain appeal*

*He could clear the savanna after every meal*

**Pumbaa:**

*I'm a sensitive soul, though I seem thick-skinned*

*And it hurt, that my friends never stood downwind!*

*And, oh, the shame!*

**Timon:**

*He was ashamed!*

**Pumbaa:**

*Thought of changin' my name!*

**Timon:**

*Oh, what's in a name?*

**Pumbaa:**

*And I got downhearted!*

**Timon:**

*How did you feel?*

**Pumbaa:**

*Every time that I-*

**Timon:** (spoken)

Pumbaa! Not in front of the kids!

**Pumbaa:** (spoken)

Oh… Sorry.

**Both:**

*Hakuna Matata*

*What a wonderful phrase*

*Hakuna Matata*

*Ain't no passing craze!*

**Simba:**

*It means no worries*

*For the rest of your days*

**Timon:** (spoken)

Yeah, sing it, kid!

**Simba and Timon:**

*It's our problem-free...*

**All:**

*Philosophy...*

*Hakuna Matata!*

Instrumental Break

**Simba:**

*Hakuna Matata*

**Timon:**

*What a wonderful phrase*

**Bunga:**

*Hakuna Matata*

**Pumbaa:**

*Ain't no passing craze*

**Kion:**

*It means no worries*

**Kiara:**

*For the rest of your days*

**All:**

*It's our problem-free*

*Philosophy*

**Simba and Bunga:**

*Hakuna Matata!*

**Timon:** (spoken)

I was not always the calm, cool meerkat you see before you, no sirree.

**Timon:**

*Why, when I was a young meerkat*

**Pumbaa:**

*When he was a young meerkat...!*

**Timon:** (spoken)

Very nice.

**Pumbaa:** (spoken)

Thanks.

**Timon:**

*I worked in the colony, paying my dues*

*Accepting without question the prevailing views*

*That a meerkat's life was one long grind*

**Pumbaa:** (spoken)

Sounds rough.

**Timon:**

*Diggin' holes, standin' guard till it crossed my mind*

*I was wrong*

**Pumbaa:**

*He was wrong!*

**Timon:**

*And all alone*

**Pumbaa:**

*All alone!*

**Timon:**

*All that I needed*

**Pumbaa:**

*What did you need?*

**Timon:**

*Was to have heeded*

**Pumbaa:**

*Sing, Timon!*

**Timon:**

*Hakuna Matata*

**Thurston:**

*What a wonderful phrase*

**Kopa:**

*Hakuna Matata*

**Timon:**

*Ain't no passing craze*

**Pumbaa:**

*It means no worries*

**Kiara:**

*For the rest of your days*

**Timon:**

*It's our problem-free*

**Timon and Pumbaa:**

*Philosophy*

*Hakuna Matata!*

## Trivia

* "Hakuna Matata" means "no worries" in Swahili.