Friday, January 18, 2013

Mbube

Jimmy Cliff in The Lion Sleeps TonightAccording to wiki, the song was composed in the 1920's by Solomon Popoli Linda (a.k.a. Solomon Ntsele), a South African songwriter, who titled the piece Mbube, meaning "Lion" in Zulu, including in the chorus, Uyimbube - or "You are a lion."


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