Decomposing Composers-Monty Python

[00:14.57]Beethoven's gone, but his music lives on [00:17.30]And Mozart don't go shopping no more [00:20.80]You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again [00:24.40]And Elgar doesn't answer the door [00:27.87]Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh [00:30.97]Whilst composing a long symphony [00:34.22]But one hundred and fifty years later [00:37.57]There's very little of them left to see [00:41.49]The decomposing composers [00:44.69]There's nothing much anyone can do [00:48.55]You can still hear Beethoven [00:51.54]But Beethoven cannot hear you [01:10.34]Handel and Haydn and Rachmaninoff [01:13.74]Enjoyed a nice drink with their meal [01:17.39]But nowadays no one will serve them [01:21.05]And the gravy is left to congeal [01:25.25]Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds [01:28.57]With a highly original sound [01:32.09]The pianos they played are still working [01:36.00]But they're both six feet underground [01:40.76]The decomposing composers [01:43.73]There's less of them every year [01:47.06]You can say what you like to Debussy [01:50.98]But there's not much of him left to hear [01:55.33]Claude Achile Debussy, died 1918 [02:01.44]Christoph Willibald Gluck, died 1787 [02:07.33]Carl Maria von Weber, not at all well, 1825; died 1826 [02:15.82]Giacomo Meyerbeer, still alive 1863; not still alive 1864 [02:24.04]Modest Mussorgsky, 1880 going to parties; no fun anymore, 1881 [02:32.80]Johann Nepomuk Hummel, chattin' away 19 and a dozen with his mates down at the pub every evening 1836; 1837, nothing