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This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Bare Necessities that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996.
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Forget about your running and your strife
Forget about your worries and your strife
Forget about your worries and your stripes
Forget about your worries and your strife
I couldn't be founder
Of my big oat
Of Mother Nature's wrestler bees
Don't pick the prickly pebble of paw
When you pick of hair, try to use thick lawn.
I couldn't be fonder
Of my big home
Old Mother Nature's recipes
Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear, try to use the claw.
Phil Harris and Bruce Reitherman's, "Bare Necessities"
Look for the bean necessities
Look for the bear necessities
Editor's note: Phil Harris and Bruce Reitherman are the correct performers of this song, in the "Jungle Book" movie. (The two performers voiced the characters Baloo and Mowgli, respectively.) The performer name originally written in here was 'Coconut Tree' (with the first word misspelled); that is not correct.
Look for the bear's extremities.
Look for the bare necessities.
Look for the bad necessities
Look for the bare necessities
Look for the bear, no sesames
Or Mother Nature's recipes
Look for the bare necessities
Old Mother Nature's recipes
Look for the hair accessories
Look for the bare necessities
Of all the bare necessities
Look for the bare necessities