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"The Lumberjack Song" is a comedy song by the comedy troupe Monty Python. The song was written and composed by Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson. [1] [2] [3]It first appeared in the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Ant: An Introduction" on BBC1 on 14 December 1969.
"Lumberjack Song (Alternate Take)" Music: Terry Jones/Michael Palin/Fred Tomlinson Lyrics: Jones/Palin: Previously unreleased: 3:20: 4. "Penis Song (Not the Noel Coward Song)" Idle: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life: 0:41: 5. "Oliver Cromwell" Music: Frédéric Chopin (interpolating Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53) Lyrics: John Cleese
"A LUMBERJACK!" "The Lumberjack Song" (S1, E9): The shop owner (Palin) sings about his desire to be a lumberjack, as well as his tendencies toward transvestism, the latter a revelation that both surprises and dismays his best girl (Booth) and the background singers (nine Canadian Mounties – five of whom are Chapman, Cleese, Idle, Jones and ...
"The Lumberjack Song" with Palin (right) and Carol Cleveland at the 2014 reunion. It appeared in the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus . Sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus were introduced to American audiences in August 1972 , with the release of the Python film And Now for Something Completely Different , featuring sketches ...
The Fairly Incomplete & Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Song Book is a compendium of songs by Monty Python, released in 1994 on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. [1]
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a 1982 concert comedy film directed by Terry Hughes (with the film segments by Ian MacNaughton) and starring the Monty Python comedy troupe (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) as they perform many of their sketches at the Hollywood Bowl.
After the song, Michael Palin (who performed earlier in this section, as Pilate), appears again in a tunic and a laurel wreath, and states, as in the original Flying Circus sketch, that he did not want to be involved at all in the celebratory event which just took place, and that he wanted to be a lumberjack instead. He strips off his tunic to ...
Palin played various roles in Monty Python, which ranged from manic enthusiasm (such as the lumberjack of "The Lumberjack Song", or Herbert Anchovy, host of the game show "Blackmail") to unflappable calmness (such as the Dead parrot vendor or Cheese Shop proprietor).