Rubes by Leigh Rubin for February 04, 2023

True.

The lion doesn’t sleep tonight.

And those texture marks signify savanna, not jungle, Player!

A-wee-mo-wa.

Plus all that racket would wake up anything.

Reminds me of a news story a couple of years ago, where some poachers were running from game wardens in an African savannah, on a moonless night, and right into a pride of lions. Next day all that was found was a piece of shirt fabric, and one shoe!!!

Weeheeheehee, dee heeheeheehee, weeoh aweem away Weeheeheehee, dee heeheeheehee, weeoh aweem away

Cue Timon: WEEEEEEEEEEE-EEEE-E-AH!

My favorite version…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOWDPkYyP0

Clinical accuracy is not necessary for silliness. But your next meal may taste funny.

Food and karaoke all at once….for the lion

Not a folk song! The original version was written by Solomon Linda in isiZulu and recorded in 1939. It was later translated into English – apparently badly – and labeled traditional to cheat Linda of the royalties he was due as songwriter.

I hate you, Leigh Rubin, for this hideous earworm!! Only to overshadowed by “Loving You”.

A wee ma …(urp).

Nice of the lion to educate the guy first.

Smarter people taste better.

URP…

For younger readers, The Tokens hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December, 1961 with ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’. The song has since become a pop culture icon.

It doesn’t really matter, because “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is actually a song about African independence. The lion is a metaphor for Africa, whose countries were no longer content to be colonies of European powers.

Now I have this song in my head, and the urge to sing it out loud is just a whim away, a whim away, a whim away…

Wow. A rare talking lion!