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Decomposing Composers - Monty Python

Beethoven's gone but his music lives on

And Mozart don't go shopping no more

You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again

And Elgar doesn't answer the door

Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh

Whilst composing a long symphony

But one hundred and fifty years later

There's very little of them left to see

They're decomposing composers

There's nothing much anyone can do

You can still hear Beethoven

But Beethoven cannot hear you

Handel and Haydn and coachman

Enjoyed a nice drink with their meal

But nowadays no one will serve them

And their gravy is left to congeal

Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds

With their highly original sound

The pianos they played are still working

But they're both six feet underground

They're decomposing composers

There's less of them every year

You can say what you like to Debussy

But there's not much of him left to hear

Claude aching Debussy died 1918

Christendom Willemstad cluck died 1787

Carl maria Avon weber not at all well 1825 died 1826

Giacometti Meyerbeer still alive 1863 not still alive 1864

Modest Mussorgsky 1880 going to parties no fun anymore 1881

Jonah nepotism Hummer

Chatting away nineteen to the dozen

With his mates down the pub every evening 1836 1837 nothing