You remember this one? If you've been in Muenster long, surely you've heard the rumors. A Muenster man wrote this song. Don't believe it? Well, it appears that this is the truth. And he was my mom's 1st cousin. If you can't read the scanned news article, it says:

Melvin was a very gifted and talented song writer. He wrote the now classical song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" when he was only a junior in high school and sold it out-right. He was inspired by the "jungle" in the backyard of his youth, where he and his sister and others played as children, and a cat that slept in the bushes.

And now you know...the REST of the story.