You can read more about this fun little tune by Mozart on Wikipedia here. There’s also a MIDI file so you can hear it. Sheet music is here.

Wolfgang made a lot of scatological jokes in his lifetime & this isn’t the only song he performed for friends that had toilet humor. He had a problem. The literal translation of the song title is rather gross, but it’s the equivalent of “Kiss my ass”, so that’s the translation I’m using.

Somebody left a review on iTunes for a collection of Mozart songs saying, “My personal favorite is the beautiful choir symphony “Leck Mich Im Arsch”. Oh so wonderful!” *Ahem*, heh, I wonder if that person knows what they’re saying in that song. It sounds nice, though.

The year is 2132

(Sign says, “Open piano night”, which is a variation on “Open mic night”, in which a bar or restaurant lets customers have some time on the stage to sing or do something entertaining. Another way of saying it might be, “Night of random people making fools of themselves on stage”.)

Fuego Hare: In dedication to our recent hurricane, I’d like to perform a canon by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart called…

“Kiss My Ass”

(“Leck Mich im Arsch” written in 1782 because he felt like it.)