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"Digga Tunnah" is a song composed by Martin Erskine for The Lion King 1½.
Use[]
The meerkats digging tunnels during the "Digga Tunnah" sequence.
"Digga Tunnah" is the first song heard in The Lion King 1½. It starts as Timon shows Pumbaa his backstory of him having grown up in a meerkat colony far away from Pride Rock. The meerkats pop out of the underground tunnels to check to see if there are any hyenas around. When one of them yells "clear!", the meerkats go back underground and start digging tunnels, singing about their dangerous way of life.[1]
Lyrics[]
Meerkat #1:
What was that? (Shhh...)
Meerkat #2:
What was what? (Shhh...)
Meerkat #3:
What was that?
Meerkat #4:
What was that?
Meerkats:
Where?
What?
Where? (Shhh...)
Where?
What was that? Shhh...
Quick before the hyena come!
Meerkat #5: (spoken)
Clear!
Meerkats:
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
When you're done, ya digga bigger tunnah
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
Quick before the hyena come
Dig!
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
You could dig and never get done-ah
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
What was that?
Quick before the hyena come
Dig!
Digga tunnah is what we do
Life's a tunnah, we're diggin' through
Digga tunnah is what we sing
Digga tunnah is everything
Mud and clay is a meerkat's friend
Always more around every bend
And when you get to your tunnah's end
Shout hallelujah, let's dig again!
Dig!
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
When you're done, ya digga bigger tunnah
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
What was that?
Quick before the hyena come
Meerkat #6:
Dig!
Meerkats:
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
You could dig and never get done-ah
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
Quick before the hyena come
Trivia[]
- In an early version of the script, "Digga Tunnah" had a section of lyrics about a fearless meerkat named Buzz.[2]
Media[]
References[]
- ↑ Revealed in Disney's The Lion King 1½ (2004). Written by Tom Rogers and directed by Bradley Raymond. Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
- ↑ [1]