OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"

[Wilson Gray]

Seeger recorded a version of this?! What in the world could he have
been thinking?! As fate would have it, I've never heard a recording of
this by anyone. I know it only as the themesong <aaarrrggghhh!!!> of
my grade-school graduation class of 1950. I'd made a point of
forgetting it and now, by sheer coincidence, I've been reminded of it.
Oh, well. Thangs be's that way.

Life sucks, and then you die.

-Wilson

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 7/7/2009 02:11 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>>With the lyrics: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo, Ai kama zimba zimba zi." (From
>>Marais and Miranda, by ear.)
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> Good for you, Mark! Â The original, as far as I know, and before even
> Pete Seeger.
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> Joel
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