According to David Bernz (part of the group Work O The Weavers)Pete Seeger has always sent royalties to the Linda estate and/or family. The recording of The Lion Sleeps Tonight was copyrighted by the people who added, as David B. states, those 10 words which include the lion sleeps tonight. They then kept the royalties---and, as he points out in his statement on stage during performance---besides ripping off the song the lines are totally innacurate since there are no jungles in S Africa, the lion is a plains animal, and is also nocturnal in hunting.

Good thing that Linda will, hopefully, get his due and also nice the Pete Seeger saw to it all those years.


Bill Hahn