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