Ixoxo Crowned the King of the Beasts (Story): Why the Lion Was Crowned King of the Beasts.

Ixoxo crowned the king of the beasts down in the bushbucks glade Ixoxo crowned the king of the beasts of sounds he made Imbabala the bushbuck was coming home on a dark and a windy night And just before he reached his favourite glade He got a terrible fright For the strangest sound was ringing out as ghostly as could be So he called two of the strongest beasts to see what they could see Ndlovu the elephant he walked in into that haunted glade The sound rang out and he turned about and cried oh I am afraid Inyati the buffalo said that he would go into the dell He heard the sound and turned around and cried it's under a spell Oh what a terrible state of affairs for the giants of the wilderness For the largest and strongest to be afraid indeed is a big disgrace Imbubesi the lion was walking by he said what goes on pray tell Imbabala said there is a ghost down in my favourite dell No such thing said the brave old lion as he peeped into a hollow log He said have no fear the sound you hear is only Ixoxo the frog Imbabala ran through the forest next day and told of the redicule How Ixoxo made the elephant and buffalo look like a pair of fools So from that day it was they say because of Ixoxo's sound And because of his fearless bravery the king of the beasts was crowned