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Bevis (Lumberjack Song)
Played by Michael Palin
The nervous barber who abandons his trade to sing about the lumberjack's life in British Columbia, only to dismay his sweetheart and a choir of Mounties with his confessions, in Monty Python's Flying Circus's 1969 Lumberjack Song, played…
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The nervous barber who abandons his trade to sing about the lumberjack's life in British Columbia, only to dismay his sweetheart and a choir of Mounties with his confessions, in Monty Python's Flying Circus's 1969 Lumberjack Song, played by Michael Palin. His girlfriend names him as Bevis in her final line.
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