Beethoven's gone but his music lives on
        and Mozart don't go shopping no more.
        You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again
        and Elgar doesn't answer the door.

        Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and
        love whiles composing their long symphony.
        But one hundred and fifty years later
        there's very little of them left to see.

        The decomposing composers. 
        There's nothing much anyone can do.
        You can still hear Beethoven
        but Beethoven cannot hear you.

        H{ndel and Haydn and Rachmaninov
        enjoyed a nice drink with their meal.
        But nowadays no one will serve them
        and their grave it is left to conceal.

        Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
        with their highly original sound.
        The pianos like Pleyel does still working
        but thereabout six feet under ground.

        The decomposing composers.
        There's less of them every year.
        You can say what you like to Debussy
        but there's not much of him left to hear.

        Claude Achille Debussy. Died 1918.

        Christoph Willibald Gluck. Died 1787.

        Carl Maria von Weber. Not at all well 1825. Died 1826.

        Giacomo Meyerbeer. Still alive 1863. Not still alive 1864.

        Modest Musorgski. 1880 going to parties. No fun any more 1881.