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 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 the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery:
“My fellow citizens, there’s nothing to worry about. It’s just Beethoven decomposing.”
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