Monty Python - Lumberjack Song
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Published 2013-01-21
i sleep all night & i work all day
i cut down trees, i eat my lunch
i go to the lavatory
on wednesdays i go shopping
and have buttered scones for tea
i am a lumberjack & i am ok
i sleep all night & i work all day
i cut down trees, i skip & jump
i like to press wild flowers
i put on women´s clothing
and hang around in bars
i am a lumberjack & i am ok
i sleep all night & i work all day
i cut down trees, i wear high heels
suspenders & a bra
i wish i would been a girlie
just like my dear papa
All Comments (21)
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As a Canadian and former logger I can state unequivocally that due to safety concerns we are no longer able to wear high heels while working in the bush.😂🇨🇦
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I was on a ferry trip and there was this absolutely HUGE finnish dude who sang this at the karaoke. He totally nailed it.
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As a Canadian I find this deeply offensive, misrepresentative, and quite frankly insulting. I have many friends who are lumberjacks and only half of them are transvestites,
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As a Canadian, I can confirm that this is 100% accurate to our day to day life
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I’m a novice lumberjack and I’ve been cutting trees for a living for a short while now. When I’m 60 feet off the ground and wielding a chainsaw I really want to sing this at the top of my lungs.
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Poor Beavis, all he wanted to do was to be a crossdressing lumberjack....
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The new anthem for the Canadian Army.
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I love how they changed "just like my dear mama" to "just like my dear papa"
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Way ahead of its time.
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When I was a kid, my mom would always sing this, but only the first part. I always assumed it was from some kid's cartoon or something like Paul Bunyan. Needless to say, this has been thoroughly enlightening.
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"What about my bloody parrot???"
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The greatest plot twist of the past century.
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Monty Python still holds up all these decades later haha
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This is the song I have as a ringtone for my nephew. He recently left us here on Earth. He was a lumberjack in his own right and I will miss him always.
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This was filmed in late 1970. Connie Booth gave birth to her and John Cleese's daughter in early 1971. If you look closely, you can see she is pregnant here. Probably why they shot most of the film right above her waist.
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I am not a lumberjack And I am not ok I work all night And sleep all day
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As a Canadian I can guarantee everything in this song is true about Lumberjacks They like their wood
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I like how she briefly had regaining confidence in his masculinity when he said he cuts down trees right before saying he wears high heels.
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I like the old ladies turning round John Cleese on a barbecue spit as the Michael the Lumberjack walks away.
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It's interesting the small changes between this and the original. The changing of the lead in sketch to the dead parrot one, the changing of rugged to butch, the ending changing from the person complaing about the sketch to something completely different and of course the changing of I wish I'd been a girly just like my dear mama to papa. That and this version had real trees :D
