Questions and Answers (The Three B’s) Songtext
von Lara Teeter

And now, before we finish class for the day
There are a few elementary questions
Which I would like to ask
For instance

Whom was this written by?
(By Cesar Franck)
Pronounce it "Fronck"
Name this for me, Joe McCall
(We won′t get home until morning)
You won't get home at all
Now, please name the Russians
Who love to use percussions

Tchaikovsky
Moszkowski
Mussorgsky
Stravinsky


And what did Shostakovich write?
(Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk)
These masters I quote now
You tell me what they wrote now
Puccini
Bellini
Von Suppe
Von Bulow
(Puccini wrote "Poor Butterfly")
That answer hits a new low

Who are the three Bs of music?

Bach
Beethoven and Brahms
Great examples of the charms of Orpheus
Throw us right into the arms of Morpheus

Johannes B
Ludwig von B
And Johann B

Be sure to sing their praise
You will never get the old diploma near
If they catch you whistling "La Paloma" here

Two of them wrote symphonies
And one wrote psalms


Bach, Beethoven and Herr Johannes Brahms
Rossini, Bellini, Campanini, Tetrazzini
Cambini, Trentini, Martini, Paganini
Stokowski, Godowsky, Levitski, Leschetizky
Wolf-Ferrari, Molinari, and the man who wrote "Sari"
(There isn′t a name ending in a "vitch")
You forget Borrah Minevitch

Two of them wrote symphonies
And one wrote psalms
Bach, Beethoven and Herr Johannes Brahms!