Decomposing Composers

...DECOMPOSING COMPOSERS... by Monty Python

*from 'Monty Python Sings' (1989)*

(Original Key: D)

Intro:

C G/B Am Em, F C, F G

Verse 1:

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.

Verse 2:

Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh,

Whilst com-posing a long sympho-ny.

But one hundred and fifty years later;

There's very little of them left to see.

Chorus 1:

They're Decomposing Com-posers; there's not much anyone can do.

You can still hear Beet-hoven, but Beethoven cannot hear you.

Verse 3:

Handel and Haydn and Rachmaninoff,

En-joyed a nice drink with their meal.

But nowadays no one will serve them,

And their gravy is left to con-geal.

Verse 4:

Verdi and Wagner de-lighted crowds,

With their highly original sounds.

The pi-anos they played are still working,

But they're both six feet under-ground.

Chorus 2:

They're Decomposing Com-posers; there's less of them every year.

You can say what you like to De-bussy,

But there's not much of him left to hear.

Coda:

Aah, aah... Claude A-chille De-bussy; died, nineteen eight-een.

Christophe Willebald Gluck; died, 1787.

Carl Maria Von Weber; not at all well, 1825; died 1826.

Giacomo Meyerbeer; still alive, 186-3;

Not still alive, 1864.

Modeste Mus-sorgsky; 1880, going to parties, no fun anymore, 188-1.

Johan Nepomuk Hummel;

Chatting away nineteen to the dozen, with his mates,

(n.C)

Down the pub, every evening, 1836, 1837; nothing.

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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)