On 23 Mar 2001, at 5:06, I wrote:
> On 23 Mar 2001, at 4:08, Andrew Vieira wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to find the lyrics to the song that Muhammad Ali used to
> > sing. You know, the one that goes, "Float like a butterfly, sting
> > like a bee." I can't find the whole song on any site about Muhammad
> > Ali, and sites that have song lyrics don't seem to have this kind of
> > song. Actually, I'm not in the whole song; just the line that comes
> > right after "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
>
> That wasn't a song. Instead that was a one line slogan that Cassius
> Clay (later known as Muhhammed Ali) used prior to a fight to
> intimidate his opponent, Sonny Liston.
>
> http://www.float-like-a-butterfly.de/rome.htm
Well, at that same site I did in fact find the following poem:
A Bad Morning Shave
You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned?
Wait till I whup George Foreman�s behind.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
His hands can�t hit what his eyes can�t see
Now you see me, now you don�t
George thinks he will, but I know he won�t.
I done wrassled with an alligator
I done tussled with a whale
Only last week I murdered a rock
Injured a stone, hospitalized a brick
I�m so mean I make medicine sick
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That poem was used before the "Rumble in the Jungle" fight.
Alan
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