Song · Bruce Cockburn
“Wondering Where The Lions Are” by Bruce Cockburn
From the album Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws (1979)
“Wondering Where The Lions Are” by Bruce Cockburn appears on 8 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2001 and 2026. It was first released in 1979 on the album Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws. Its best result is #161 on the WYEP 913 Essential Songs. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,081 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Wondering Where the Lions Are" comes off Bruce Cockburn's 1979 album Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws, and it grew out of a restless night. Over dinner, a relative with a defence-related government job told him China and the Soviet Union might go to war, and that everyone could wake up to a nuclear one. Cockburn went to bed shaken and dreamed of lions at his front door, strangely unthreatening; when morning came with no war, he started turning the dream into a song. Gene Martynec produced, with Larry Silvera on bass and Anthony "Benbow" Creary on drums.
It gave Cockburn his only US Top 40 hit, at 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, and although seven later singles charted higher in his native Canada, CBC Radio's 2005 series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version put it at number 29 among the country's greatest songs.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 438 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2007 | 625 | WTMD | WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time | 897 |
| 2009 | 161 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2016 | 770 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2020 | 1869 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 1288 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2023 | 631 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s | 850 |
| 2026 | 641 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
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