"Courage" Lyrics

Dorothy

Your Majesty, If you were King, you wouldn't be afraid of anything?

Lion

Not nobody, not nohow!

Tin Man

Not even a rhinocerous?

Lion

Imposserous!

Dorothy

How about a hippopotamus?

Lion

Why, I'd trash him from top to bottomamus!

Dorothy

Supposin' you met an elephant?

Lion

I'd wrap him up in cellophant!

Scarecrow

What if it were a brontosaurus?

Lion

I'd show him who was King of the Forest!

All Four

How?

Lion

How?

Courage! What makes a King out of a slave?

Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave?

Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk,
in the misty mist or the dusky dusk?

What makes the muskrat guard his musk?

Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder?

Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder?

Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?

What have they got that I ain't got?

All Four

Courage!

Lion

Then you can say that again!