In re-reading my post I want to make an addition/correction just for the record:
I was incorrect in the title that I gave for the uptempo traditional West African song [and dance] that is known to some Afrocentric US folks. That song is "Funga Alafia". The words to the first verse of that song are: Funga Alafia Ashe Ashe Funga Alafia Ashe Ashe
I want to make sure that I give credit [to the ancestors] for this song since it certainly served as inspiration and as a basis for the one I say I composed. I built on that foundation and didn't start from stratch.
But I guess no created effort starts from stracth-how could it?
That being said, I still believe that that the words and the more moderate tune for "Alafia Ashe" that are found in my first post in this thread came to me from outside of myself {or deep within myself}.
And maybe it was God or maybe it was the ancestors who helped me.