Klarinet Archive - Posting 000232.txt from 2006/01

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] music for Mozart's birthday
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:29:10 -0500

Is there supposed to be a MELODY that we should know?

Fred Jacobowitz

Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
Ebony and Ivory Duo
On Jan 27, 2006, at 1:07 PM, mlmarmer wrote:

> In honor of Mr. Mozart birthday, here are the lyrics to a accoustic
> singer/song writer, Hugh Blumenfeld.
> A wonderful song.
>
> MOZART'S MONEY
>
> Where the hell did it go?
> They say he spent it all on wine and women
> But even so--
> I know a guy who wrote a song for Garth Brooks
> And now he's got it made for life
> But Mozart never really made a lot of money,
> And that's what I tell my wife.
> I'd like to know what happened to Poe's
> Investment portfolio
> Maybe he walled it up in that crypt
> With his good friend Fortunato
> I know a guy who knows Stephen King
> Who'll be a sheik in the afterlife
> But Mr. Poe never made much dough
> And that's what I tell my wife
> I accost her with tales of Stephen Foster
> And the visionary William Blake
> I say "Honey, you can't count the money
> That a genius doesn't make."
> But Wallace Stevens was also from Hartford,
> a big insurance man
> William Carlos Williams was a pediatrician
> And Eliot worked in a bank.
> Time will tell if they were poets as well
> Or if they're just big books on the shelf
> But most of my heroes never made a lot of money
> And that's what I keep telling myself
> What ever happened to Mozart's money--and what about van Gogh?
> I tell you there's more than blood that's red in the books of Edgar
> Allen
> Poe
> Imagination in large denominations is something you can never earn
> But the poor damned souls who made Mozarts money, still got money to
> burn
> Yeah, the poor damned souls who made Mozarts money,
> they still got money to burn
> Copyright 1995, Hugh Blumenfeld / Hydrogen Jukebox Music
>
>
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