Which Israeli folk song is featured on Scottish bagpipes for the soundtrack album from Monty Python's Life of Brian?
Monty Python's Life of Brian (album) Monty Python's Life of Brian is the second soundtrack album by Monty Python, released in 1979 alongside the film of the same name. It contains scenes from the film interrupted by linking sections performed by Eric Idle and Graham Chapman, who also acted as producers following an aborted attempt at a soundtrack album by Michael Palin. The album opens with a brief rendition of "Hava Nagila" on Scottish bagpipes, which had earlier been considered for use in a scene later cut from the film.
Habbie Simpson Habbie Simpson (1550–1620) was the town piper in the Scottish village of Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire. Today Simpson is chiefly known as the subject of the poem the "Lament for Habbie Simpson" (also known as "The life and death of the piper of Kilbarchan"). Inhabitants of Kilbarchan are informally known as "Habbies" to this day.