One of my all time favorite Disney tunes (next to Peter Pan’s “We can Fly” and Cinderella’s “So this is Love”), is Jungle Book’s The Bare Necessities of Life.
The lyrics give good guidelines for life too!
(I chose to post the following video rather than the jazz piano one because I am doing the steps too)
Look for the bare necessities
The simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
Old Mother Nature’s recipes
That brings the bare necessities of life
Wherever I wander, wherever I roam
I couldn’t be fonder of my big home
The bees are buzzin’ in the tree
To make some honey just for me
When you look under the rocks and plants
And take a glance at the fancy ants
Then maybe try a few
The bare necessities of life will come to you
They’ll come to you!
Look for the bare necessities
The simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
That’s why a bear can rest at ease
With just the bare necessities of life
Now when you pick a pawpaw
Or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw
Next time beware
Don’t pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear
Try to use the claw
But you don’t need to use the claw
When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw
Have I given you a clue ?
The bare necessities of life will come to you
They’ll come to you!
So just try and relax, yeah cool it
Fall apart in my backyard
‘Cause let me tell you something little britches
If you act like that bee acts, uh uh
You’re working too hard
And don’t spend your time lookin’ around
For something you want that can’t be found
When you find out you can live without it
And go along not thinkin’ about it
I’ll tell you something true
The bare necessities of life will come to you
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I like Bare Necessities too. I also like When You Wish Upon A Star, Beauty and the Beast, Be Our Guest, Poor Unfortunate Souls, The Work Song, and Once Upon A Dream
Comment by hunnie910 August 19, 2009 @ 9:31 pmHow can anybody like the bad guys songs? Poor unfortuante souls?!?!?!?!
Comment by Wendy August 19, 2009 @ 11:48 pmi think Ursula is so funny, so fat~!
I also like Jack’s Lament.
Comment by hunnie910 August 22, 2009 @ 3:31 pm