Always Look... rereleased with new verse

Monty Python have recorded a new version of Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life as an unofficial England World Cup anthem.

Eric Idle has written a new verse for the song, to console fans if and when the team crash out.

The new lyrics say: 'When you're in The World Cup, And all your hopes are up, And everybody wants their team to win.

'Then they go and let you down, And come slinking back to town, It's time for this daft song to begin.'

The new version, which has been released on iTunes today also comes as the Pythons prepare for the their ten farewell shows at London's O2 Arena next month. The Pythons are also reissuing a new version of their Monty Python Sings album on June 30. A box set of all their albums will also come out the same day.

Idle originally wrote Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life for the final sequence of the Life of Brian in 1979.

The Pythons are not the only comics to release an unofficial World Cup anthem. Omid Djalili has recorded England's Going Out (To Do It Again), which features a star-studded video:

Meanwhile, Keith Allen's band Fat Les, creators of the Vindaloo anthem, have rereleased their song called Who Invented Fish & Chips, featuring the chorus: 'You ponce, you slag / Pop it in the onion bag' for the World Cup. It lists a number of allegedly English achievements but its inclusion of telephones, penicillin and steam [power] could rile the Scottish, since the masterminds behind all those breakthroughs came from north of the border.< /P>

Published: 8 Jun 2014