De Mallemolen

Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Netherlands De Mallemolen


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year = 1977
country = Netherlands
artist = Heddy Affolter
as = Heddy Lester
with =
language = Dutch
languages =
composer = Frank Affolter
lyricist = Wim Hogenkamp
conductor = Harry van Hoof
place = 12th
points = 35
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1977nl from Diggiloo Thrush]
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prev_link = The Party's Over (song)
next = 't Is OK
next_link = 't Is OK

"De Mallemolen" (English translation: "The Merry-Go-Round") was the Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977, performed in Dutch by Heddy Lester.

The song compares life to a merry-go-round. Lester sings that the point of life is to take advantage of all the opportunities one is given, no matter how frightening they might appear at the time.

The song was performed third on the night (following Monaco's Michèle Torr with "Une Petite Française" and preceding Austria's Schmetterlinge with "Boom Boom Boomerang"). At the close of voting, it had received 35 points, placing 12th in a field of 18.

It was succeeded as Dutch representative at the 1978 Contest by Harmony with "'t Is OK".