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Monty Python( The Pythons )
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Decomposing Composers
Lyricist:Michael Edward Palin
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 Hayden and Rachmaninov 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 Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com 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 Achille Debussy, died, 1918 Christophe Willebald Gluck, died, 1787 Carl Maria von Weber Not at all well, 1825, died, 1826
Giacomo Meyerbeer Still alive, 1863, not still alive, 1864 Modeste Mussorgsky,1880 Going to parties, no fun anymore, 1881
Johan Nepomuk Hummel Chatting away nineteen to the dozen With his mates down the pub Every evening, 1836, 1837, nothing
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