GUEST,Chrissy, on 18 Dec 10 - 05:59 AM wrote:

"in reply to Roger in Baltimore waaay back in '99 about the song 'Wimoweh' it is actually a South African song written in 1939 by Solomon Linda titled 'Mbube Wimoweh' which translates as 'The Lion Sleeps'."

Here is the original version:

Solomon Linda &The Evening - Mbube

And here is a beautiful version by

Miriam Makeba - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Helen