A Musical Discovery

[My Good Babushka]

In 1991, Harvard’s music library discovered a lost canon of Mozart. It’s called “Lick Me in the Ass”.

[frogmarch]

1. Hahaha!

Oh, wait...I mean, how shocking!

Actually, I am shocked. I had no idea Mozart wrote bawdy songs.

Mozart wrote this six-voice canon in 1782. It was likely a party piece for his friends. The title translates to “Lick me in the ass,” an old German idiom akin to the modern “Kiss my ass.” When Mozart’s publisher received the piece, he was shocked to see such bawdy language and bowdlerized the text to read, “Let us be glad!” (Which, I think, is the complete opposite of what this tune means.)

Leck mich im Arsh, g’schwindi, g’schwindi! Etc.

"Lick me in the ass, quickly, quickly! Etc."

Listen to it and other ones here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/55247/3-dirty-songs-mozart

[cemaphonic]

2. I probably shouldn't do this but...

Jack White and Insane Clown Posse did a version of this. Don't listen to it, it's every bit as awful as you would think. Just knowing that it exists is enough:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xktglq_insane-clown-posse-mozart-jack-white-leck-mich-im-arsch_music

And yeah, Mozart had a love of scatological humor. His surviving letters (to his mother no less) are full of that kind of thing.

[OriginalGeek]

3. ummmm

...bowdlerized the text to read, “Let us be glad!” (Which, I think, is the complete opposite of what this tune means.)...

I think not....