Decomposing Composers Tabs & Lyrics by Monty Python

Decomposing Composers

guitar tabs lyrics

Monty Python

...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 G/B
Beethoven's gone but his music lives on,
Am Em
And Mozart don't go shopping no more.
F C
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again,
F G
And Elgar doesn't answer the door.

Verse 2:

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

Chorus 1:

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

*(BEETHOVEN BREAK)*

Verse 3:

C G/B
Handel and Haydn and Rachmaninov,
Am Em
En-joyed a nice drink with their meal.
F C
But nowadays no one will serve them,
F G
And their gravy is left to con-geal.

Verse 4:

C G/B
Verdi and Wagner de-lighted crowds,
Am Em
With their highly original sounds.
F C
The pi-anos they played are still working,
F G
But they're both six feet under-ground.

Chorus 2:

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

Coda:

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

C
Carl Maria Von Weber;
Am
Not at all well, 1825, 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
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006
([email protected])