"Wondering Where the Lions Are" is a song by
Bruce Cockburn, from his 1979 album
Dancing in the Dragon's
Jaws.
It was Cockburn's only Top
40 hit in the United
States
, peaking at #21 on the Billboard Hot 100.
While also
a Top 40 hit in Cockburn's native Canada
, it was not
his biggest hit in that country, where seven of his subsequent
singles reached higher chart positions. It was, however,
named the 29
th greatest Canadian song of all time in the
2005
CBC Radio series
50 Tracks: The Canadian
Version.
Covers
The song has been covered numerous times: