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The Minotaur's Song (3:22)

Cover of The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

From The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

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Straight from the shoulder
I think like a soldier
I know what's right and what's wrong
(He knows what's right and what's wrong)

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  • zeventight

    phonefreakhoney- I agree so much, I am researching this and trying to see if I can get Wikipedia editors to notice this and include it in the article. While researching *cough* googling, I came across this shoutbox. I have also found out that the album "the Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" was top 5 in the UK music charts in March 68. The Lumberjack Song premiered in December 69, long enough for the Monty Python crew to have unconsciously absorbed it and close enough for the relation between the two to be plausible. Unfortunately changing wikipedia can be tricky but I will let you know if I get it done!

    12 Feb 4:02am Reply

  • prominence_la

    Charming.

    7 Jan 6:00pm Reply

  • phonefreakhoney

    I remain convinced that this song is in fact an early prototype for the much funnier "Lumberjack's Song" by Monty Python. You cannot convince me otherwise.

    25 Aug 2012 Reply

  • blowyrgourd

    reliabull

    28 Dec 2011 Reply

  • breitheamhnaig

    The only Scottish band to play Woodstock apart from the Who. Don't discriminate just cos you're a buffalo.

    23 Dec 2011 Reply

  • illware

    relieabullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

    24 May 2011 Reply

  • valkaydunn17

    He'll do what's wrong as long as he can. Reminds me of my sadly 'late' husband!

    19 Mar 2011 Reply

  • crystaltrips

    I could go for some porridge right now myself.

    24 Feb 2011 Reply

  • bobgreen623

    I bloddy love this band!!

    15 Dec 2010 Reply

  • ProgessiveWin

    Reliable. Buuullll. Bull. :D

    31 Aug 2010 Reply

  • nocturana

    :)))))))))))))))))))

    16 Mar 2010 Reply

  • facundoolano

    I can't help think of Monty Python's 'Lumberjack Song' [2]

    17 Feb 2010 Reply

  • xlucent

    Fantastic song. Fantastic album. I bought it in 1969 and have loved it ever since. This song perfectly captures a very "orcish" minotaur. (I got this album about the same time I read LOTR and the two are inextricably linked in my mind.)

    16 Nov 2009 Reply

  • glam_racket

    I can't help think of Monty Python's 'Lumberjack Song'

    1 Apr 2008 Reply

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