~~~~~ooOoo~~~~~
When Mozart passed away, he was buried
in a local churchyard. A few days later, the
town drunk was walking through the cemetery
and heard some strange noise coming from
the area where Mozart had been buried.
Terrified, the drunk ran to get the local priest,
and asked him to come listen to what he
had heard.
When the priest bent close to Mozart’s grave,
he heard some faint, unrecognizable music.
Frightened, he ran to get the town magistrate.
When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear
to the grave, listened for a moment, and said,
“Ah, yes, that's Mozart's Ninth Symphony,
being played backwards.”
After listening a while longer, he said, “There's
the Eighth Symphony, and it's backwards, too.
This is most puzzling.”
By that time, more town-folk had come to
the grave to hear the strange sounds.
The magistrate kept listening, and after a few
minutes he finally said, “There's the Seventh,
the Sixth, and the Fifth, too.”
As the reality of what was actually happening
finally dawned on the magistrate, he stood up
and announced to the nervous and frightened
gathering crowd, “My fellow citizens! There's
nothing to worry about.
“Nothing evil or supernatural is happening.
It's just Mozart, decomposing.”
