Alphabet Of Nations

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song name	Alphabet of Nations
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	Here Come The ABCs, TMBG Clock Radio
year	2005
first played	Aug. 17, 2004 (176 known performances)
run time	1:26
sung by	John Flansburgh, John Linnell

Oman, Qatar and Yemen are the only existing countries whose names begin with their respective first letters.
Technically, there is no nation whose name begins with the letter 'X' or the letter 'W.' (Wales is a principality, Wallis is a territory of France, and Western Sahara is a disputed territory below Morocco). The fictional West Xylophone is used as a stand-in for both of these letters.
At live shows (and perhaps in the studio version too), Dan Miller plays keyboard.
Live performances sometimes include an additional bridge between the usual two, where Linnell lists a few more countries in this order: "Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Chad, Afghanistan, Brunei, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Fiji, Guatemala."
The video was created by Brandon Martinez and Michelle Hammod of ColourMovie.

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