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Strange Noises in the Graveyard?
Beethoven passed away,
he was buried in a churchyard.
A couple of days later,
the town drunken was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise
coming from the area where Beethoven was buried.
Terrified, the drunken
ran and got the priest to come and listen to it.
he priest bent close to
the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave.
Frightened, the priest
ran and got the town magistrate.
When the magistrate
arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said:
"Ah, yes, that's Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, being played backwards."
He listened a while
longer, and said:
"There's the Eighth
Symphony, and it's backwards, too. Most puzzling." So the magistrate kept
listening;
"There's the
Seventh...
the Sixth...
the Fifth..."
Suddenly, the
realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate.
He stood up and
announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery:
‘’’’’’’’’
"Fellow citizens,
there's nothing to worry about.
It's just Beethoven
decomposing."
