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When Beethoven passed away he was buried in a churchyard.  A couple days later the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Beethoven was buried.  Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it.  The priest bent close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music cominf from the grave.  Frightened, the priest rand and got the town magistrate. 

When the magistrate arrived he bend 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 the Seventh...the Sixth...the Fifth..."  Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on him.  He stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery, "My fellow citizens, there is nothing to worry about.  It's just Beethoven decomposing."

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