New Release
About this song
Decomposing Composers is a track by Monty Python, taken from the album “Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album”, released October 2, 2006 on Virgin Catalogue. It runs 2:44. Use the Play button above when a verified stream is available, or choose a listening service from the other options.
Within the album sequence, this recording sits alongside Sit On My Face, Announcement, Henry Kissinger. Open the album page to compare the full running order and the listening options available for each song.
Song details
- Song
- Decomposing Composers
- Artist
- Monty Python
- Release
- Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album
- Format
- Album
- Duration
- 2:44
- Release date
- October 2, 2006
- Record label
- Virgin Catalogue
- Content notice
- Standard
Reviews
What people are saying about Decomposing Composers.
Comments
No comments yetComment
Sign in to post a comment. Reading reviews and comments remains open to everyone.
Lyrics
Find another songIntro: 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.
Schübert 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,
Y
ou can still hear Beethoven,
But Beethoven cannot hear you.
Verse: Händel 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.
Lyrics supplied by lyrics.ovh.
More from Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album
- 01 Sit On My Face 0:44
- 02 Announcement 0:21
- 03 Henry Kissinger 0:49
- 04 String 2:20
- 05 Never Be Rude To An Arab 1:00
- 06 I Like Chinese 3:14
- 07 The Bishop 2:39
- 08 Medical Love Song 2:35
- 09 Finland 2:18
- 10 I'm So Worried 3:19
- 11 I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On The Radio 0:55
- 12 Martydom Of St Victor E 1:42