Rafiki Discovers Simba's Alive – English Lyrics

• Album: The Lion King

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

whoa nice one Simba thanks man I'm

stuffed me too I ate like a pig Pumba

you are a pig oh waitone

yeah ever wonder what those sparkly dots

are up there p i don't wonder I know oh

what are they they're

fireflies fireflies that got stuck up on

that big bluish black thing oh

gee I always thought they were balls of

gas burning billions of miles

away Pumba with you everything's gar

zimba what do you think well I don't

know oh come

on come on our please

well somebody once told me that the

great Kings of the past are up there

watching over us really you mean a bunch

of Royal dead guys are watching

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us who told you something like like that

yeah yeah what moo made that up yeah

pretty dumb huh oh you're killing me

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son was it something I said

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Simba he he's alive he's alive

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it is time

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
stuffed /stʌft/ B1	adjective - filled to capacity; very full. verb - to fill tightly with something.
pig /pɪɡ/ A2	noun - a domesticated or wild animal of the swine kind.
sparkly /ˈspɑːrkli/ A2	adjective - emitting or reflecting sparks; glittering.
dots /dɒts/ A1	noun - a small round mark or spot.
fireflies /ˈfaɪərflaɪz/ B1	noun - a nocturnal beetle that emits light.
burning /ˈbɜːrnɪŋ/ B1	verb - producing flames and heat. adjective - feeling intense emotion.
gas /ɡæs/ A2	noun - a substance in a gaseous state.
Kings /kiŋz/ B1	noun - the male rulers of a country or territory.
past /pæst/ A2	adjective - gone by or that has happened before.
watching /ˈwɒtʃɪŋ/ A2	verb - looking at something for a period of time.
dead /ded/ A2	adjective - no longer living.
killing /ˈkɪlɪŋ/ B1	verb - the action of causing someone to die.
son /sʌn/ A1	noun - a male child.
alive /əˈlaɪv/ A2	adjective - living, not dead.
time /taɪm/ A1	noun - the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

Key Grammar Structures

• whoa nice one Simba thanks man I'm stuffed

  ➔ Informal colloquialisms, use of interjections

  ➔ The sentence uses very casual language like "whoa", "nice one", and "stuffed" (meaning full). This is typical of informal conversation. "

• yeah ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?

  ➔ Tag question, inversion for emphasis

  ➔ The phrase "ever wonder..." is a common way to introduce a question, and the "up there" at the end adds emphasis. The structure is a subtle tag question.

• gee I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away

  ➔ Past continuous tense (thought), complex noun phrase (balls of gas burning billions of miles away)

  ➔ The sentence uses the past continuous to describe a previous belief. The noun phrase describing the fireflies is very detailed and uses a participial phrase ("burning billions of miles away") to modify "balls of gas".

• Simba he he's alive he's alive

  ➔ Repetition for emphasis, ellipsis (omission of 'is')

  ➔ The repetition of "he's alive" dramatically emphasizes the discovery. The second "he's" omits the verb "is" for a more emphatic and excited delivery.