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It first appeared on the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, " The Ant: An Introduction " on BBC1 on 14 December 1969.

The song has since been performed in several forms, including film, stage, and LP, each time started from a different skit.

At an NPR interview in 2007, Michael Palin stated the scene and the whole song were created in about 15 minutes, concluding a day's work, when the Python crew was stuck and unable to come up with a conclusion to the barbershop sketch that preceded it.