TheMusicof theFuture

TheMusicof theFuture

The politest musician that ever was seenWas Montague Meyerbeer Mendelssohn Green.So extremely polite he would take off his hatWhenever he happened to meet with a cat.

The politest musician that ever was seenWas Montague Meyerbeer Mendelssohn Green.So extremely polite he would take off his hatWhenever he happened to meet with a cat.

The politest musician that ever was seenWas Montague Meyerbeer Mendelssohn Green.So extremely polite he would take off his hatWhenever he happened to meet with a cat.

The politest musician that ever was seen

Was Montague Meyerbeer Mendelssohn Green.

So extremely polite he would take off his hat

Whenever he happened to meet with a cat.

“It’s not that I’m partial to cats,” he’d explain;“Their music to me is unspeakable pain.There’s nothing that causes my flesh so to crawlAs when they perform a G-flat caterwaul.Yet I cannot help feeling—in spite of their din—When I hear at a concert the first violinInterpret some exquisite thing of my own,If it were not forcat gutI’d never be known.

“It’s not that I’m partial to cats,” he’d explain;“Their music to me is unspeakable pain.There’s nothing that causes my flesh so to crawlAs when they perform a G-flat caterwaul.Yet I cannot help feeling—in spite of their din—When I hear at a concert the first violinInterpret some exquisite thing of my own,If it were not forcat gutI’d never be known.

“It’s not that I’m partial to cats,” he’d explain;“Their music to me is unspeakable pain.There’s nothing that causes my flesh so to crawlAs when they perform a G-flat caterwaul.

“It’s not that I’m partial to cats,” he’d explain;

“Their music to me is unspeakable pain.

There’s nothing that causes my flesh so to crawl

As when they perform a G-flat caterwaul.

Yet I cannot help feeling—in spite of their din—When I hear at a concert the first violinInterpret some exquisite thing of my own,If it were not forcat gutI’d never be known.

Yet I cannot help feeling—in spite of their din—

When I hear at a concert the first violin

Interpret some exquisite thing of my own,

If it were not forcat gutI’d never be known.

And so, when I bow as you see to a cat,It is n’t toherthat I take off my hat;But to fugues and sonatas that possibly hideUncomposed in her—well—in her tuneful inside!”

And so, when I bow as you see to a cat,It is n’t toherthat I take off my hat;But to fugues and sonatas that possibly hideUncomposed in her—well—in her tuneful inside!”

And so, when I bow as you see to a cat,It is n’t toherthat I take off my hat;But to fugues and sonatas that possibly hideUncomposed in her—well—in her tuneful inside!”

And so, when I bow as you see to a cat,

It is n’t toherthat I take off my hat;

But to fugues and sonatas that possibly hide

Uncomposed in her—well—in her tuneful inside!”


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