Thanks. I knew that "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" was Ali's
slogan, but I thought that there was a song with that line, too. Maybe it
is just a poem, but all I'm interested in is how it goes.
Andrew
"Alan S. Harrell" wrote:
> 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
>
> ---
>
> That poem was used before the "Rumble in the Jungle" fight.
>
> Alan
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