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[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