It's got to be either Ecclesiastes or the Byrd's huh?
Even though the "Turn turn turn" part of it was written by Pete Seeger.
Pete Seeger also laid no claim to Wimoweh which he imported from Africa via Alan Lomax who played him the record. Now Disney is getting sued by the African family whose relative wrote the original tune entitled "Mbube" which is actually how it was pronounced until Seeger altered it.
The Kingston trio covered it and the Tokens made a big hit of it. This link has all the permutations:
http://www.bobshannon.com/fred/Mbube%20Listing.html
Credit where it is due.
It seems to me that Ecclesiastes wrote that "vanity, vanity all is vanity and a striving after wind."
And Seeger of course got the bulk of the lyrics from the same biblical source - which did not include the lines "Turn turn turn" if it did speak of the "time to every purpose under heaven etc."
I appreciate the metaphor - but I prefer citing actual sources rather than talking through my hat. The Byrds did do a great cover of that tune, and the Bells of Rhymney another Seeger tune.
Seeger also wrote "Newspaper Men are such Interesting People." But that was back before anyone called a bias "spin."
And Disney should pay that African family they have been exploiting. Seeger never made any dough off that tune. But the Lion King is almost as big as Fahrenheit 9/11!