Monty Python - Lumberjack Song
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- i am a lumberjack & i am ok
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 - เพลง
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.😂🇨🇦
Covid restrictions, I suppose.
This former NZ logger agrees with you. We got a lot of our techniques from the Canadian loggers, including safety standards. My high-heels when working as a pole-man at the skid site wasn't so bad in the summer, but the winter here just fucked them totally. As well as ruining my tights.
Hahahaha
Liar
I bet there must have been strong protests for this from the lumberjack syndicate...
I was on a ferry trip and there was this absolutely HUGE finnish dude who sang this at the karaoke. He totally nailed it.
I remember that
Was he cute?
I'm disappointed he didn't sing the Finland song:
"Finland, Finland, Finland,
The place where I'd quite like to be..."
Hilarious 😆
You were on a Ferry trip? Or "Fairy" trip?
As a Canadian, I can confirm that this is 100% accurate to our day to day life
If you're not dodging singing Mounties while driving down Yonge Street, you gotta watch out for all those lumberjacks wearing women's clothing.
You must not be a millennial 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
Haha.
I'm a Torontonian, and even I have to see those mounties everyday, I can confirm this sketch is the truth as well!
Especially with trudeau in charge
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.
💀
You mean your father 😆😆
@@Andrewflynn16 omd 💀
LOLL
You must have had a great mum
And you have to admit, it's catchy tune
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.
Way ahead of its time.
I think Ernest Hemingway said it best
These days it would be called transphobia or something like that...
@@simonwoods8809 These days the BBC wouldn't make it
True
@@simonwoods8809 Not true. I know several trans people who enjoy this skit.
Poor Beavis, all he wanted to do was to be a crossdressing lumberjack....
"He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life! He rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch, he'd be pushing up daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket! He's shuffled off his mortal coil! He's run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible! *_.....THIS..... IS AN EX-PARROT!!!!!_*"
Huh... better replace him then...
Why couldn't he just throw on a blanket and a toil on top of his head and a scarf and claim he's Different ?. It's already a crazed world o_0 why not ! Seriouslys !. And they hate him o_0 I simply don't get it ?_? !.
Now days he would be praised as the ideal lumberjack
What about Butthead? How would he handle that news?
Monty Python still holds up all these decades later haha
Terminology is a little outdated though
It’s either cross dresser or transgender person depending on the intention
Transvestite has seriously fallen out of favour
@@jmurray1110has throwing rotten vegetables at them fallen out of favour?
@@displaychicken probably has t happen in decades but it’s not exactly uncouth (unless they have a tomato allergy that is)
@@displaychicken you had to make this a race issue didn't you?
@@displaychickenah, so you're that kind of person
"What about my bloody parrot???"
Shhh... He's sleeping. Observe the beautiful plumage...
He has ceased to be. He has met his maker. He is a late parrot.
@@screwyootube1 Alright then. If he's sleeping, I'll wake it up. HELLO POLLY! I got a nice cuttlefish for you when you wake up Polly Parrot!
Hes pining for the fjords
If you hadn't nailed him to the perch, he'd be pushing up the daisies right now!
I love how they changed "just like my dear mama" to "just like my dear papa"
The family history of cross dressing is better.
It was originally "just like my dear papa", but they changed it to "...mama" later on 😂
AbbyAbby BoBabby no it was originally mama and was changed to papa
@@nolanL No, it was Papa, but the BBC thought it was too much and made them change it
@@phoneheaded It was Mama in the original live version. This came out subsequently and had Papa.
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.
That's a nice detail
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.
Go for it.
What's stopping you?
That is an excellent question
When I was a roofer, I used to sing sea shanties when I was on a ridge, so I don't see why you can't sing this from a tree.
GO FOR IT....film the event and I bet a
TH-cam war lasting years would start.
Dear Sir,
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song which had just broadcast about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes. Many of my best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them are transvestites.
Yours faithfully,
Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Ms.).
P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times.
Alright! Alright! That's quite enough of these songs about men dressing as women! It's silly! Let's move along to something completely different!
Well, I object to all of this sex on the television. I mean, I keep falling off!
Titan52berg agreed. This is all getting rather silly.
True ... Why so much about sex ... It is making the world rapists .. And men less ... Feminists growing. Men are running away
I thought you guys where just being stupid and dumb, but with a bit more digging, I now understand the joke. Sorry
The new anthem for the Canadian Army.
So they are all gay?
You from Canada?
No, it's your daddy's.
Them fighting words.
*Eh"* !.
I like the old ladies turning round John Cleese on a barbecue spit as the Michael the Lumberjack walks away.
John Gora
*Brevin
And Now for Something Completely Different
@@zephyrsbusiness6437 IT'SSSS
As a Canadian I can guarantee everything in this song is true about Lumberjacks
They like their wood
And their beaver?
And stopping at Subway for a " Footlong "
True dat. The only kind of beaver tail I like is at the restaurant 🤣
so all lumberjacks are transvestites?
@@Excanda based
I am not a lumberjack
And I am not ok
I work all night
And sleep all day
Perefectly balanced like nothing should be.
😂😂
Ye dæmon of the night! ...be ye... handling thyself well? Prithee take care!
Feeny Leander Rubenstein thank ye for your kind words, but I no longer be a creature of te night. Fortune dos smile at me as I now walk around with the living in the day time. Unfortunately it is also where most people with corona also harbor so....
JARG 64 hey Jarg! Good for you. It’s really helpful to feel the sun and the breeze on one’s face. Best of luck to you!
Amazing, decades later this is still exactly how we live life in Canada. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Trudeau the turd and his Frankfurt school freaks in charge
The greatest plot twist of the past century.
We'll miss Terry Jones, the guy was so funny, but always look on the bright side of life....
Watching this in his memory.
Sorry but Terry Jones was the least funny
@@magnificentcatz1470 But he did still contribute to the stuff you don't see: the writing and the directing. The former is done with the other Pythons, but the latter had been shared with Gilliam only for The Holy Grail. As his approach to making the movies was most suited for the Python style of humor, he alone directed the Life of Brian and the Meaning of Life
Immer wieder der Renner! Monty Python sind unsterblich! Weiter so! Herzliche Grüße aus Deutschland!!! ❤❤❤❤🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@flauschifussel7038 say what now?
Monty Python was formed in 1969 the year of the moon landing. 1969! That is over 50 years ago and their humour is still relevant and I am still laughing ... truly a work of art.
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,
😂😅😁
Hahahahaha
Absolutely hilarious, KK Hagerty!
They got us in the first half not gonna lie
Had us in the first half.
Monty Python! Unsterblich! Eure Scherze und Witze werden ewig leben!!!!! Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland ❤❤❤❤❤
Three cheers for all the Canucks here in the comment section; your reactions make this clip even better 😄👍 Hip, hip!
As a Canadian whose father is a carpenter who has a friend who is a landscaper and cuts down a lot of trees, I can confirm my dad has this as his friend's ringtone.
The Choir "Suspenders!?" Gets me every time😂
Lumberjacks were the programmers of their time.
I like this
They're both Jobs where Noone wonders where you disappear to. It's the woods or the basement, no questions asked.
what in god's name is your profile picture?
@@fishouttadawater1712 Bisedual Dennis Prager
@@utahraptor4729874 Pretty sure Dennis ain't trans
As a fellow Canadian I appreciate our proud lumberjacks!! 🇨🇦
I remember when this song was sung on Monty Python. For more than a month my brother went around singing this song any chance he could! Quite often Mom would chime in as well.
I liked playing Twit Olympics with my mom!
Thanks for the happy memories. 😊
With my mom, watching on PBS on Sunday nights. The Scotsman/Wimbledon/blancmange sketch had us in pain from laughing. "Angus Podgorny! What DO YOU MEAN!?"
As a Canadian myself I can confirm that this is what Canada is like.
Didn't I meet you in a forestry camp in northern British Columbia?? You had the short skirt and I was wearing a Tutu
@@squidman556 Kind of funny considering I use to live in British Columbia.
😂
Impossible to see what Canada looks like with all the trees in the way.
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
Jerry Smith I agree.
The changing of rugged to butch, I think, is with overseas audiences in mind. Particularly America. Earlier in the movie, they replace the word bum with buttocks.
There's an original??
@@frank431 Yes, the sketch was first performed in their TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus. The version in this video is different and comes from their movie And Now For Something Completely Different.
The use of "butch" makes it sound like they're a lesbian couple, and the blond girl thought her trans girlfriend was going to be a butch.
I'd like to thank PBS for introducing me to this and other British programs as a child otherwise I'd be gloriously confused. No one in America says "lavatory."
or the bog, the lav, the crapper, the john, or the Khazi all valid Briticisms
Dear Sir,
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms
about the song you have just broadcast
about the lumberjack who wears women’s clothes.
Many of my best friends are lumberjacks,
and only a few of them are transvestites.
Yours faithfully, Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur
Strong, Mrs.
P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times
Love this performance. I heard that Canadian crossdressing LumberJacks prefer to be called LumberJills. Just saying.
As long as you call us . I hate when I'm wearing my best dress a sailor asks for my number and never phones
The RCMP will provide backup tenors upon request for non-gay purposes.
My lifelong dream is to hire a small male choir, dress them in Canadian Mounty uniforms, along with my wife, dress like a lumberjack and perform this classic on Halloween.
Do it!
What about my bloody parrot????
@@sumthingwikked4257 it's resting
Go for it, I'll be cheering you on!
Follow the dream! ❤
is this from now for something completely different
Two years later, I can now reveal that the answer to your query is...
Yeah.
@@uny4781 nice Necro. And it's originally from Monty Python's Flying Circus
My friend, Eric, was in that! One of the Canadian Mounties in the group. Few years back now. Funny change on the lyrics 😆
Monty Python, the biggest comedy legend in earth history past, present and future
and what about Firesign Theater? Either Monty Python is second, or they are tied for first place...
@@bobwilliams731 then they are tied
Whitest Kids U Know took their place, and Wizards with Guns or Almost Friday TV will take their place after. The cycle of life
I’m an Irish immigrant who has lived in Australia as of 2023 for 50 years….man and boy, as they say. I love my Canadian brothers and sisters . Your comments are just like you find on the MP “Bruce” sketch…..self deprecating and everyone agreeing that’s exactly how we are. We are the best.
This just NEVER stops being funny!
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.
I'm sorry for your loss.
im sorry what
So sorry
My condolences to you & yours. You were lucky & graced to have each other. In many ways, as it seems you know quite well, you always will.
Im sorry
One of their (many) best sketches/scenes. That darn tune is regrettably catchy.
Only thing manlier than being a lumberjack is being a LION TAMER!
Canadians
Dear Sir,
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms of a song, which you have just broadcast, about the lumberjack who wears women’s clothes. Many of my best friends are lumberjacks, and only a few of them are transvestites.
Yours Faithfully,
Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.)
P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times.
As an Australian I can confirm this is exactly what Canadians are like
Yes, every single one of them.
😂😂😂
Im Canadian and a lumberjack.When I go to Tim Hortons I wear my finest dress and use the womens rest room.I must point out that Im not a transvestite.
Canadian here and can confirm lol
My classmates wanted my teacher to play Lumberjack. They didn't think it was gonna be this Lumberjack. They were expecting a rap version. Well my teacher got them real good.
You had a good teacher :-)
Grew up in a family who loved Monty Python shows! Good ole days when you could say anything and it was just so freaking funny! Like Benny Hill too!
What makes this song even funnier is that people who work in logging and forestry have some of the highest levels of self-reported happiness of any job in the United States.
@@tinyrockyplanet8953, agree....Forests are amazing places !
When I used to go camping, when I was a teenager, every year they would have the counselors put on skits the first night...And I vaguely remember them doing this exact skit, unfortunately that was before I even knew about Monty Python
“And now for something completely different”
Some people say you couldn't get away with this today, but that's not true. In the modern version, he would be completely unironic, the mounties would all be in full praise, wearing rainbow lapel pins, and no one laughs... ever...
It's funny to think that 50 years since Monty Python started, not only is it still funny to me, but so many who weren't born till the 21st Century also find it funny
You know I never really got into Monty Python because I thought it was just British humor and I figured as an American, I wouldn't like it. Then I saw the clip of the song "Brave Sir Robin" from "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" and thought it was hilarious. Then I see this video and realize what geniuses the Monty Python troupe was. I'm not going to watch all the films from the first to the last.
Only in a Monty python sketch can we start off with a argument about a dead parrot, which leads to the clerk admitting he’s dissatisfied with his work, then proclaiming he wished he was a lumberjack, while simultaneously admitting he’s a closet transvestite.
I saw this live on TV the first time it played in the US! I've been a Python fan from the first broadcast.
Love Monty Python thanks to my late wonderful dad he raised me on Monty Python I'm 36 years old
I know this is meant to be funny but words can’t express to what extent I genuinely love this, and how happy it makes me😂 the way Palin sings it is also just so happy!
The soliloquy before the song:
"Well the weather for the whole area
Will continue much the same as the past few days
Temperatures seventeen centigrade, that's forty-nine Fahrenheit
Winds will freshen later tonight to south-west force six or seven
And there will be showers sometimes heavy in many
Oh sod it, I didn't wanna do this
I don't wanna be a weather forecaster
I don't wanna rabbit on all day about sunny periods
And patches of rain spritting from the west
I wanted to be
A lumberjack!
Leaping from tree to tree
As they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia
The giant redwood
The larch
The fir
The mighty Scots pine
The lofty flowering cherry
The plucky little aspen
The limping Roo tree of Nigeria
The towering Wattle of Aldershot
The Maidenhead Weeping Water Plant
The naughty Leicestershire Flashing Oak
The flatulent Elm of West Ruislip
The Quercus Maximus Bamber Gascoigni
The Epigillus
The Barter Hughius Greenus
With my best buddy by my side
We'd sing, sing, sing"
Thank you
If I may be so petulant, 17°C is actually 63°F.
@@fun_ghoul Good call!!!! I looked into it further, because I thought centigrade was a seldom used term and found this:
It was not even until February 1985 that the weather forecasts issued by the BBC switched the term from "centigrade" to "Celsius".
@@anthonyboerio4955 I think that was common in the Commonwealth. My grampa, an Italian-Canadian, always said centigrade.
Regardless 40 below is 40 below. Its kinda cold heading to the bar in my work boots and favorite skirt
This is like "Who's on First?" It never gets old! Man! those mounties in the background, really bring it home1
I break out in song everytime that I see a flannel shirt.
I love the old ladies roasting John Cleese at the end.
I like how it’s when he mentions the heels do the background guys wise up and Go away.
Almost like a pair of high heels killed their family or something.
I think it’s cause their balls have been on the bad end of high heels, the thought of a powerful lumberjack wearing them and kicking them probably freaked hen out enough to high tail it out of there
Dear Monty Python,
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the implications of the Lumberjack Song. I know a lot of trans ladies, and NONE of them are lumberjacks!
Sincerely,
Vivian F (8 months HRT)
Ok
Okay but this song never says that ALL trans females are lumberjacks
Took me a minute 🙈😂
Live your dreams. Become a lumberjack. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Just wanted to say congrats on over 3 years HRT, I hope you're OK now (even if you're not a lumberjack)!
Sincerely,
A trans guy
As an honorary Canadian I can confirm that all other honorary Canadians do not wear suspenders and a bra...but they do wear high heels.
Love it...memories from the years gone by of good old British Comedy..Excellent 😂😂
As an American, I read Canadians comments about this song.😂👍
I like that the others only when recognise the lyrics when they have to sing it hemselves
The greatest comedy troupe ever💕
Ever wonder why the dead parrot owner called him ms at the front desk when he was mistaken for him as a sissy
I'm a programmer
And I'm ok
I work all night
And I work all day
I write my code
I eat my lunch
What about my bloody parrot??
He's a programmer
and he's OK
he works all night
and he works all day
He writes his code
He eats his lunch
He puts on women's leggings
And hangs around in chats ?!
He wishes he'd been a hacker. Just like his dear papa.
I write my code
I test it out
I push to git and merge
I browse for porn at pornhub
And then discharge my urge
Its okay Lumberjack, I'll hang out with you at the bar 🍻
based
Showed this to my husband - he didn't laugh once - we are now getting divorced.
Harsh, but fair.
Omg that's wicked funny. 🇨🇦
The hidden joke is that people will be offended by the references to homosexuality, but not cannibalism
.....or paedophilia and medical child abuse.
All lumberjacks sing this song while they are felling the trees.
This is one new thing they added in the film, than when the song was featured in Flying Circus, which was the Lumberjack's Canadian Mountie friends throwing fruit and veg at him off screen.
Monty Phyton influenced me profoundly in my childhood. I mean it basically formed my Humor and helped me with my childhood depression and the urging feeling that nothing matters and our society is truly fucked up. I can't describe that feeling too my satisfaction in english because i mean it's english but in german we have the perfect word "Weltschmerz".
Your username is a beaut. Cheers.
@@fun_ghoul F the Kulaks, I used to work for one myself comrade.
Why does this feel like an insurance commercial?
The original femboy
true neutral
Far be it for me to try to improve on the legendary Pythons, but I think it would have been funny if just one of the chorus Mounties had stayed and belted out "I wish I'd been a girlie, just like my dear papa!" One dude just rolls with it, or realizes too late what he's just sung.
💂♂️👰♂️
This is basically what a typical work day looks in Canada.
Fun fact - when the Pythons did their first tour of Canada Graham Chapman brought a guide to Gay hangout spots in Canada and told the other Pythons he was going to 'bag a Mountie.' Eric Idle said "Graham always gets his man."
This is my favorite Monty Python episode. And for good reason, this song
Which episode is it in? I really want to watch that episode with the lumberjack song.
@@camelkaze this is from a movie, the orginal TV episode was different and low budget
I was awaiting to hear Cleese say his famous line, but it got cut off at the very end, which possibly made the abrupt sight of him roasting on a spit even more hilarious to me. 😂
I haven't seen this since my dad showed it to me as a child and I swear to god I thought the wife said "I thought you were so rugged" now it just sounds weird in my head.
She says that in some versions
Goldust singing this in the locker room with Booker T, dressed as a lumberjack
Monty Python transitioned into this song from the Parrot-Scene. They set the bar high
“transitioned”
They should’ve played this in the Dexter ending
I'd have shat a brick of funny.
I cut down trees and cut up enemies, If they meet the code🎶🎶
What about his bloody sister?
How comes that I still laugh out loud at this 50 years later?
because its absolutely hilarious loll
Lumberjacks, bastions of Queer culture!
Final Fantasy VI has an item called the Merit Award which lets you equip Minerva Bustiers - some of the best body armor in the game - on male characters. Totally in line with this song!
The Pythons: Still unique, and deliciously irreverent!
(ps: Thong and a bra, possibly; High heels.., never!)
God they were comedic geniuses! I can always laugh at Monty python
Its nice to see Polly was in this sketch.. Faulty Towers
Nowadays if this was on national TV there would be a disclaimer to warn people that this is offensive content.
As someone who's not Canadian I can unequivocally say that Canadian lumberjacks really are girlies
Where are you from? 🤣 Sounds like a comment an American would make.
They should be called lumberjills! 😀
I used to laugh so hard to this song,
but now, in this day and age,
oh my!!
Now we laugh twice as hard
I love how ahead of the times the movies were with their jokes.