Lyrics - Decomposing Composers by Monty Python

Intro:
Right ho, darling.
Yeh, be home (spoken) about 8:30.
No, no
I'll go on abike.
Verse:
Beethoven's gone but his music lives on,
And
Mozart don't go shoppin' no more,
You'll never meet
Liszt or
Brahms again,
And
Elgar doesn't answer the door.
Schübert 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.
Chorus:
They're decomposing composers,
There's nothing much anyone can do,
You can still hear
Beethoven,
But
Beethoven cannot hear you.
Verse:
Händel and
Haydn 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,
The pianos they played are still working,
But they're both six feet underground.
Chorus:
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.
Finish:
Claude
Achille
Debussy, died 1918.
Christophe
Willebaud
Gluck, died 1787.
Carl
Maria von
Weber, not at all well1825, died 1826.
Giacomo
Meyerbeer,still alive 1863, not still alive 1864.
Modeste
Mussorgsky, 1880 going to parties,no fun anymore 1881.
Johan
Nepomuck
Hummel, chatting away nineteen to thedozen with his mates down the pub everyevening 1836, 1837 nothing.

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