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You can’t make sweet sounds if you’ve mucked up the seating The Spin Quartet [also known as "The Quartette"]
After the fable ‘Quartet’, by I.A. Krylov A monkey, a donkey, a bear and a goat
Decided to corner the cultural vote
By forming a string-quartet. “Hurry”, called Bear,
“Forward, not back!”. So each beast grabbed a chair,
Two fiddles, viola - and what’s this big fellow
Bear’s dragging along? Well, he calls it a cello
Though everyone knows it’s a bass. Never mind.
The spinning’s beginning. And how the bows grind
As they torture the strings and the musical laws.
There’s a thudding of hooves and a prattling of paws,
There’s a bong and a ping and a plonk and a plink.
“Stop, lads”, Monkey shouts, “You’re not playing in sync.
Our seating-plan’s wrong. You change places with me,
Mr Goat. Second Fiddle, you sit by that tree.
Now come on musicians, and stop the damn bleating.
You can’t make sweet sounds if you’ve mucked up the seating”.
The players change places and strike up again.
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