Intro: Right ho, darling Yeh, be home
(spoken) about 8:30 No, no I'll go on a
bike
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 t
he door
Sch?bert 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,

ou can still hear Beethoven,
But Beethoven cannot hear you
Verse: H?ndel 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 cro
wds,
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 m
uch of him left to hear
Finish: Claude Achille Debussy, died 1918
Christophe Willebaud 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 g
oing to parties,
no fun anymore 1881 Johan Nepomuck
Hummel, chatting away nineteen to the
dozen with his mates down the pub every
evening 1836, 1837 nothing