<P> In 1997, Half Man Half Biscuit appropriated the melody of the song for their song "Paintball's Coming Home" on the album Voyage to the Bottom of the Road </P> <Ul> <Li> In February 1978, English football team Nottingham Forest F.C. released "We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands" (Warner K17110) in conjunction with local band Paper Lace; the B side featured "The Forest March". The song has become a favourite in British football grounds, with the lyrics adapted in various ways; for instance, "We're the worst team in the League" has been heard at Rushden & Diamonds matches as well as Crystal Palace F.C. matches . </Li> <Li> In the 1982 film Tootsie, Dorothy Michaels (Dustin Hoffman) sings a line of the song to her (his) agent George Fields (Sydney Pollack), changing the words to "I've got the whole world in my hands ." </Li> <Li> The song was also used in the 1987 film Roxanne with Steve Martin . </Li> <Li> In the movie Con Air (1997), Steve Buscemi plays a serial killer who sings "He's Got the Whole World" with a little girl . In the movie RocketMan, also from 1997, Harland Williams plays the role of an astronaut who sings "I Have the Whole World in My Hands" on a worldwide broadcast, and is then accompanied by millions of people around the world watching it . </Li> <Li> WWE wrestler Bray Wyatt started singing the song during his feud with John Cena, to accentuate Wyatt's gimmick as a cult leader . Later used during his feud with Finn Balor . </Li> </Ul> <Li> In February 1978, English football team Nottingham Forest F.C. released "We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands" (Warner K17110) in conjunction with local band Paper Lace; the B side featured "The Forest March". The song has become a favourite in British football grounds, with the lyrics adapted in various ways; for instance, "We're the worst team in the League" has been heard at Rushden & Diamonds matches as well as Crystal Palace F.C. matches . </Li> <Li> In the 1982 film Tootsie, Dorothy Michaels (Dustin Hoffman) sings a line of the song to her (his) agent George Fields (Sydney Pollack), changing the words to "I've got the whole world in my hands ." </Li>

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