Finland (comedy song)

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"Finland" is a Monty Python comedy song written and performed by Michael Palin and arranged by John Du Prez with a guitar accompaniment. It features on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album from 1980, and is also included on the CD Monty Python Sings.

It purports to be a celebration of Finland, a country that is overlooked when travelling abroad as 'a poor second to Belgium,' despite the fact that it 'has it all' with lofty mountains and tall trees and pleasures including: pony trekking, camping or 'just watching TV'.^[1] In reality 'mountains so lofty' are not characteristic of Finland as the Scandinavian Mountains only just touch the northwesternmost corner of the country.

Palin gave an impromptu rendition of the song while travelling through Finland for the 1992 travel documentary Pole to Pole.

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