• Source: Wondering Where the Lions Are

"Wondering Where the Lions Are" is a song written and performed by Bruce Cockburn. The track is from his 1979 album Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws.




Development and composition


The song was indirectly inspired by a dinner meeting between Cockburn and a relative that worked in a defense-related government position. The relative suggested that there was considerable concern that a war might break out between China and the Soviet Union and suggested "We could wake up tomorrow to a nuclear war". Cockburn was upset, and had dreams that night about lions at his front door, but not in a threatening way. When he awoke the next morning to find war had not broken out, he began using elements of the dream to compose the song.




Chart performance


It was Cockburn's only Top 40 hit in the United States, peaking at No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it peaked at No. 92 in Australia.
While also a Top 40 hit in Cockburn's native Canada, it was not his biggest hit in that country, where seven of his subsequent singles reached higher chart positions. It was, however, named the 29th greatest Canadian song of all time in the 2005 CBC Radio series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version.




Personnel


Bruce Cockburn – guitar, lead vocals
Pat Godfrey – piano, marimba, backing vocals
Larry "Sticky Fingers" Silvera – bass, backing vocals
Ben Bow – drums, güiro, backing vocals




Covers


Leo Sayer on the 1982 album World Radio.
Vigilantes of Love on the 2000 compilation album Roaring Lambs.
Jimmy Buffett on the soundtrack for the 2006 film Hoot
Donavon Frankenreiter on his 2007 album Recycled Recipes.




References

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• Hoot (film)
• Wondering Where the Lions Are
• Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws
• Bruce Cockburn
• 50 Tracks
• World Radio
• Kick at the Darkness
• Hoot (film)
• Bruce Cockburn discography
• Saturday Night Live season 5
• If I Had a Rocket Launcher