Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for July 09, 2020
July 08, 2020
July 10, 2020
Transcript:
the beethoven's birthday song sung to "ode to joy" beethoven: ach, bitte. don't sing. come and listen to the story of a man named ludwig van, born the sixteenth of december, in the german town of bonn. wrote concertos, quartets, sonatas, missa solemnis & min-u-ets. beethoven: verdammter! kleinbeethovenkopfboutique sale and he never made a penny from those ugly stat-u-ettes.
I tried singing the “Ode to Joy” with these words, but it wouldn’t scan. The theme song to “Beverly Hillbillies” didn’t either.