The Lumberjack Song
The Lumberjack Song ( The Lumberjack Song in the original ) is a sketch by the British comedy troupe Monty Python, who appears in the ninth episode of the first season of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The episode, titled The ant. An Introduction. was taken on December 7, 1969, sent on December 14.
The sketch was written by Michael Palin (with a few exceptions) also sang the song in different versions. The stage appearances of Monty Python Eric Idle took over the role of the woodcutter, as well as in the appearance at the Hollywood Bowl, which was later published as Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
The idea for the sketch came Palin after a conversation with a camera assistant, who already held various jobs and worked as a lumberjack.
Action
The sketch begins with a man who brings his displeasure with his current job for expression and thereby increases rapidly into in his frustration. In Monty Python's Wonderful World of gravity, it involves the Zoohändler from the Dead Parrot sketch is also very well known. Most recently, he then admits that he would actually be a lumberjack. In this statement, a chorus occurs (usually consisting of Mounties ), who accompanies his lumberjack song and sings the refrain ( " He's a lumberjack, and he's okay, he sleeps all night and he works all day" ). A blond girl appears in a costume, clings to his side and looks at him longingly.
The song begins as a harmless Shanty, which describes the life of a lumberjack in an idealized manner; from the second verse the text takes a bizarre twist: The singer admits to slip on women's clothing and hang around in bars. First, lopping and already a little irritated, the Mountie chorus makes this turn with yet.
In the third stanza, the singer reveals his penchant for high heels, stockings and bra. Finally, the person desires to be a girl - just like his mom ( in the original version of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in later versions of Papa, in the old German version of Uncle Walter as rhyme on bra ).
The Mountie chorus reacts shocked and leaves cursing the scene, and the girl at his side, leaving him with the words " And I thought you were so manly! "
Disappointed pulls the singer then departed. In the first version he is booed and pelted it with old vegetables.
Music
The melody corresponds to the duet " Là ci darem la mano " from the opera Don Giovanni by Mozart
Versions
1971 Sketch for the film Monty Python's Wonderful World of gravity in a new version was recorded.
1972 this sketch was broadcast by an unknown translator into German and recorded for the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The Pythons learned phonetically, this German text. Also sang in this version no Mountie chorus the refrain ( "He's a lumberjack and feels strong, he sleeps at night and hacked a day" ), but a troop of German border police.
Another translation was for the German dubbed version of the above mentioned film Monty Python's Wonderful World of gravity made ( here the refrain: "He's lumberjack, and he 's fine, the day grabs him by the workaholism ").
In the published 1989 CD Monty Python Sings the song interrupts the weather forecast of a frustrated radio host (I do not want to rabbit on all day about sunny periods and patches of rain spreading from the west. ), And the enumeration of the species prior to the start of the song is increased to the absurd ( eg The flatulent Elm of West Ruislip ).
1991, a German -language cover version was released on a single by the punk band Dödelhaie.
On 29 November 2002, the song as part of the Concert for George in honor of the late George Harrison ( 1979 producer of the Monty Python movies) was performed live. The role of the Mounties was taken over by Tom Hanks.