6/12/2014 10:16:37 PM

ASHAY ASHAY

I'll try this thread again at a later date.

6/13/2014 12:48:24 AM

With my thoughts, I welcome you.
With my words, I welcome you.
With my heart I welcome you.
See, I have nothing up my sleeve.

6/13/2014 10:11:51 AM

AHA, thank you, stevedude!

6/13/2014 10:48:45 AM

I remember singing this in elementary school in music class but I definitely didn't remember what the words actually meant. Learn something new every day. :V

6/13/2014 12:13:33 PM

I remember some group came to my elementary school and sang that song as part of a play or skit or variety show or something along those lines.

As soon as I saw the thread title, I sang the next line in my head.

6/13/2014 12:47:26 PM

WHY DO I KNOW THIS

6/13/2014 3:05:29 PM

Cause we all had the troop come to our elementaries and teach us the funga alafia song! I don't know if I remember the random dance they taught us, but I definitely have one that I do.

The fact that I don't shout out funga alafia in line at the store is my proof of impulse control. So hard.

6/13/2014 3:57:32 PM

gunga galunga

6/13/2014 4:14:06 PM

The Youtube videos I've watched of it are definitely nothing like the guy who came to my school.

I remember it being a very loud/aggressive chant, not a welcome song. And we said fungi, not funga.

And it was a single light-skinned dude, not an African troop. I thought it was an American Indian thing, too, not a West African thing.

6/13/2014 4:58:58 PM

We just got Ronald McDonald at our school. He didn't sing and mostly talked about stranger danger and safety.

Why were strangers such a huge problem in the late 80s-early 90s?

6/14/2014 1:15:47 PM

i vaguely remember this

6/16/2014 7:37:06 AM

we had the dude that wore the donatello costume in the first ninja turtles movie come and do karate stuff at my elementary

that's the only kind of assembly i remember from then

mine was better

6/16/2014 8:08:36 AM

One day during lunch, this guy runs into the cafeteria wearing a chicken suit and proceeds to dance like a mad man to "All Shook Up" by Elvis for about 5 minutes while we all stare. His crowing was so loud it made some kids cry. He then just disappears and no one says anything.

I'll never forget that day.

6/16/2014 8:14:33 AM

^LOLOLOLOL

6/16/2014 7:46:04 PM

I think I remember this in the vaguest of memories

6/17/2014 4:17:50 PM

Try shouting it out loud while you do a tribal dance mockery.

It may jog your memory.

6/17/2014 5:50:45 PM

One of my most vivid elementary school memories.

6/17/2014 11:23:33 PM

this song is from before africa had aids

6/17/2014 11:31:38 PM