For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 20, 2023

Except that lions live on the savanna not in the jungle.

My band opened for The Tokens. They saved that tune until the end of their set and made a very long production of it.

Mike likes oldies?

At least he’s blasting classic songs…

How many of you just sang that out loud? LOL

Is that paper from a dot-matrix printer? With perforated sides?

And so it begins

This shoots me half a century back !

Mike should have seen the Tokens live. They weren’t the first to tackle The Lion Sleeps Tonight (the Weavers, the Kingston Trio and a few others did before them). But the Tokens continued to play live regularly on the west coast into the early years of the 21st century, and the late Mitch Margo could still hit that falsetto with a vengeance at that point.

You’d think Ellie would be pleased that Mike prefers THIS to 90’s music. Thought she might jump in and sing along.

“Baweemawop Baweemawop Baweemawop Baweemawop ….” Well somebody has to do the background!

St. Michael of Flithead

Worse than poking the bear?

That is on my list of songs that I can’t stand. It’ll be stuck in my head all day. Drat!

The song was written by South African Solomon Linda and recorded by him with the title “Mbube”. Pete Seeger misheard the lyrics as “wimoweh” and introduced it here thinking it was a native folk song and thus Linda got no royalties. When Seeger learned his error he made sure Linda got the credit and royalties from the Weavers version and tried to make that happen universally, but Disney used it in Lion King and refused to pay anything to Linda’s family, resulting in a lawsuit. There’s a very moving documentary on this called “The Lion’s Share.”

Yup stuck in the head now. But thanks to the internet I have a visual of the 2 cops in the golf cart

I don’t remember this strip from the first time it ran. It made me chuckle this morning. (And I’ll probably get an earworm today, too.)

This one is best done acapella … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RnhVDTks3g

Hey, it’s Monday! Let’s go out there and have a good day! If there’s no one around, give those vocal cords a good workout. My Honey says, my singing keeps the mice away.

Boy, Elly sure is a moody cow lately

Lynn’s Comments:

Changing this to a modern song would mean changing the punch line. Some things you have to leave as they are!

Source: https://fborfw.com/strip_fix/monday-february-20-2023

Excuse me, I have to go in the kitchen and ask Alexa to play this for me. It’s a great song.

Never wake the mama lion. She is fierce!

I wrote a parody of this song aft er a guy in my dorm got drunk and peed on my door at 4 am one night. I caught him and thought it was funny but my roommate was pretty roasted. I better not say the drunk kid’s name.

I love it!!!

My mother had that record when I was a kid back in the ‘60s. Kids today don’t know what a music record is…

Maybe the urge to listen to it is just a whim away, a whim away, a whim away ….

I do not know how my mom (and the rest of my family) kept with my Techno music back in the day, even the neighbors listened to it (even if they did not like it)!

How old is this strip? I remember that song from circa 1960?

Funny, just a little while back I mentioned that I like this song by the Tokens. Right after I finished reading today’s comic, I hear the song being played on KTUC. Now I have an all-day earworm.

There’s something deliciously absurd about this being the song Mike is blasting.

It could have been gospel music or “O Canada”, and Elly would still be angry with her son. It was not the issue what was played, but rather he had it full blast. Michael was oblivious to the fact he is a part of a family. Michael was also clueless to the fact that he lives in a house that his parents paid for.

The Patterson Dictionary:

Africa: A place where children would be happy to eat whatever meals Elly makes.

.Baby: How Michael, Elizabeth and April will always be seen by Elly, regardless of their actual age.

Grown Up: An ambiguous term that applies when Michael and Elizabeth need to take on more responsibilities and do better in school…but not when they ask for more privileges.

Noise: Any piece of music composed after 1949.

Perfect: Elly’s life growing up in the 1950s.

Respect: What Elly always gave her parents, the high and mighty Greatest Generation.

Sixteen: The number of miles John had to walk to school.

Mom needs a Chill-Pill or Lithium or …

I can remember an evening when our son was a “tween” and this song came on the radio. The three of us lip-synced the whole thing. Hubby was the lead singer, son was the “weemaways” and I did the high “ah-ah-ah-ah’s”. We laughed so hard when we were done. It’s a great memory.

Hush my darling……

What does she mean, “shaking the whole house”? That song isn’t exactly known for its beat.

Y’know, that’s a lullaby…

My Old Man used to say, “don’t poke the bear”…

What are the real lyrics to Louie, Louie?

correction: Michael woke the lioness

Earphones, dummy…

What’s the paper for?

A Whim A Way!

Oh sorry, Helly Patterson. Mike must’ve forgot that your loud b—-hing is the only thing allowed to shake the whole house. Maybe he turned it up because he couldn’t hear the radio over YOU!

My mother worked more night shifts than I can remember as a nurse. When she woke up early in the day, she was far worse than Ellie could be. Woe be tide that person who woke her from her slumber. They would get clobbered by her and the rest of us siblings would add to that person’s misery!

Loud music has always been the bane of my existence. My father would crank the stereo at 7 a.m. because he thought we should be awake, even though because I was in high school, and had to work evenings on weekends, I didn’t get to bed until 3:30 a.m.That carried over to my military time… rather than the expensive stereo, I bought a simple clock radio. If I was in my barracks room writing letters home, I would have the door open for the cross breeze, and my radio was on, but, you could stand in the doorway to my room, and barely hear it.

Good for Elly. If she did not confront him about this music he might become a racist and/or start shooting heroin. She yelled at him for reading a pornographic magazine; if she hadn’t then one day in the future he would sexually harass women.

I have always hated that song.