12-8-2000
Tom
Lehrer
(1928-
)
Music,
here
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The
loveliest girl in Vienna
Was
Alma, the smartest as well
Once
you picked her up on your antenna
You'd
never be free of her spell
Her
lovers were many and varied
From
the day she began her beguine
There
were three famous ones whom she
married
And
God knows how many between
All
modern women are jealous
Which
of your magical wands
Got
you Gustav and Walter and Franz
The
first one she married was Mahler
Whose
buddies all knew him as Gustav
And
each time he saw her he'd holler
"Ach,
that is the fräulein I moost hav"
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Their
marriage, however, was murder
He'd
scream to the heavens above
"I'm
writing 'Das
Lied von der Erde'
And
she only wants to make love!"
All
modern women are jealous
You
should have a statue in bronze
For
bagging Gustav and Walter and Franz
While
married to Gus, she met Gropius
And
soon she was swinging with Walter
Gus
died, and her tear drops were copious
She
cried all the way to the altar
But
he would work late at the Bauhaus
And
only come home now and then
She
said, "What am I running, a chow house
It's
time to change partners again"
All
modern women are jealous
Though
you didn't even use Ponds
You
got Gustav and Walter and Franz
While
married to Walt she'd met Werfel
And
he too was caught in her net
He
married her, but he was carefel
'Cause
Alma was no Bernadette
And
that is the story of Alma
Who
knew how to receive and to give
The
body that reached her embalma
Was
one that had known how to live
How
can they help being jealous
Ducks
always envy the swans
Who
get Gustav and Walter
With
Gustav and Walter and Franz
Alma
Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964) foi uma das grandes amantes do sec. XX.
Todos os seus homens foram génios. Casou em 1902 com Gustav Mahler, o
compositor, que veio a falecer em 1911. Em 1915 casou com Walter Gropius, o
Arquitecto da Bauhaus, com o qual já tivera uma aventura em 1910. Finalmente
em 1929, casou com o escritor Franz Werfel, autor da "Canção de
Bernardette", do qual enviuvou em 1945. Após a morte de Mahler,
teve um affair com o pintor Oskar Kokoschka, de quem permaneceu amiga
toda a vida.
À
morte de Alma, o compositor Tom
Lehrer,
escreveu esta canção jocosa, que as biografias dela transcrevem.
Another page about Alma Mahler,
here
