IF I WERE KING OF THE FOREST
From the film "The Wizard Of Oz" (1939)
(Lyrics: E.Y. Harburg / Music: Harold Arlen)

Bert Lahr (Film Soundtrack) - 1939


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 wussh and a wussh 
And a royal growl....wunf!

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-o-o-n-a-a-a-a-arch of all I survey!



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - November 2010)