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Decomposing Composers

Monty Python

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...DECOMPOSING COMPOSERS... by Monty Python
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*from 'Monty Python Sings' (1989)*


*CAPO 2nd FRET*

(Original Key: D)


Intro:

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

Verse 1:

C
 Beethoven's gone,
        G/B
But his music,
Lives on,
    Am
And Mozart don't go,
            Em
Shopping no more.
       F
You'll never,
Meet Liszt,
   C
Or Brahms again,
    F
And Elgar doesn't,
           G
Answer the door.

Verse 2:

C
 Schubert,
And Chopin,
        G/B
Used to chuckle,
And laugh,
           Am
Whilst com-posing,
              Em
A long sympho-ny.
        F
But one hundred,
                C
And fifty years later;
             F
There's very little,
                G
Of them left to see.

Chorus 1:

C
 They're,
Decomposing,
    G
Com-posers,
        F
There's not much,
           G
Anyone can do.
C
 You can still,
          F
Hear Beet-hoven,
    G
But Beethoven,
            C
Cannot hear you.

*(BEETHOVEN BREAK)*

Verse 3:

C
 Handel and Haydn,
    G/B
And Rachmaninov,
   Am
En-joyed,
A nice drink,
           Em
With their meal.
    F
But nowadays,
No one,
     C
Will serve them,
          F
And their gravy is,
            G
Left to con-geal.

Verse 4:

C
 Verdi and Wagner,
   G/B
De-lighted,
The crowds,
           Am
With their highly,
         Em
Original sounds.
       F
The pi-anos,
They played,
          C
Are still working,
    F
But they're both,
               G
Six feet under-ground.

Chorus 2:

C
 They're,
Decomposing,
    G
Com-posers,
        F
There's less,
Of them,
      G
Every year.
        C
You can say what,
               F
You like to De-bussy,
            G
But there's not much,
               C
Of him left to hear.

Coda:

C     Am
 Ahh, ahh,
F         G
 Claude A-chille,
   C
De-bussy;
Am     F
 Died, nineteen,
G
 Eight-een,
C
 Christophe,
Am         F      G
 Willebald Gluck;
C
 Died, 1787.

C
 Carl Maria,
Von Weber;
Not at all well, 1825,
Am
 Died, 1826.
Am
 Giacomo Meyerbeer;
Am                Dm
 Still alive, 186-3,
Am                Dm
 Not still alive, 1864.

Am           F
 Modeste Mus-sorgsky;
Am
 1880, going to parties,
C                    F
 No fun anymore, 188-1.
C              G
 Johan Nepomuk Hummel;
C              F
 Chatting away nineteen,
G       C
 To the dozen,
With his mates,
(n.C)
 Down the pub,
Every evening, 1836,
1837;
Nothing.


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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   C       G/B     Am      Em      F       G       Dm

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 x32010  x20033  x02210  022000  133211  320003  xx0231


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

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