Download this little song, get a choir or octet together to sing it, and you'll have the most distinctive outgoing message on an any answering machine in your area code. Your friends might start calling when they know you aren't in just to hear this. "Sorry that we could not answer the phone! We might be busy, we might not be home. In just a moment this will be your cue: Speak after the beep and we'll get back to you." Do some minor surgery on the lyrics to put your name in.

MP3 Sound sample: entire piece (synthesizer/midi).



THE ANSWERING MACHINE SONG by Tom Kirkland comes in a PDF file of 896K, one page of music plus license page. Performance time: approximately 50 seconds.