Mbube ("Lion") is a very old traditional Zulu song, the Night Hunting Song. The song reflects the idea that men can only hunt when there are no lions around, when the lion is asleep.
The definitive version was made in 1939 by Solomon Linda and his group of a capella singers. It was later "borrowed without royalties" by a Western group, The Weavers, who struck gold with it. Of course, it's better known as The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
_________________________ This a spiritual thing and I am the laughing Buddha sitting on top of the world. Donnalee.
"Populace above, populace below! What are 'poor' and 'rich' at present! That distinction did I unlearn,—then did I flee away further and ever further, until I came to those kine." --Thus Spake Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche.
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