Uyimbube

I came across this very funny video in my RSS feeds (Google Top 10 Videos). So funny I decided to "blog" it, meaning, a little backgrounder related to the video and the lyrics as well for those who wanna sing along with hippo.

When you play the video, you'll hear the repetitive word "a-wimoweh" while Dog does its amazingly choreographed step. According to Wiki, wimoweh is uwimbube which means "you're a lion" in Zulu. The root word here is mbube (lion) and Mbube is the original title of the song recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda's group The Evening Birds and became a hit in South Africe in 1940. A copyright issue arose when the movie The Lion King used the song although a number of renditions were made out of it and a number of movies used it too.

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