But perhaps none of those journeys are longer or stranger than that of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” began its life in 1939 in Johannesburg, when a Zulu singer named ...
American lyricist George David Weiss was asked to arrange the song for doo-wop band The Tokens - and he added the English lyrics: "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight." ...