The Lion Sleep Tonight song (Naudo guitar solo)

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"The Lion Sleeps Tonight\" is a song originally written and recorded by Solomon Linda under the title \"Mbube\" for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939. Linda's original was written in Zulu, while the English version's lyrics were written by George David Weiss. The song was adapted and covered internationally by many pop and folk revival artists in the 1950s and 1960s, including Henri Salvador, the Weavers, Jimmy Dorsey, Yma Sumac, Miriam Makeba, and the Kingston Trio.

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