the lion sleeps tonight - tell me: what is this song really about?

[EugMax]

Enternally beautiful
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Soweto Gospel Choir [i hear them in 1994 in Johannesburg - unforgettable]
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Jimmy Cliff's version
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The version everybody knows .... The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
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