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Subject: Shakespeare referenced in songs or band names
Written By: Carolyn on 02/22/06 at 6:37 am
Hi
just doing a homework project ::)
I know that some bands / songwriters reference Shakespeare in their songs or in the bands names
but I can only think of 'This Mortal Coil' which I think must come from the Hamlet soliloquy
any help appreciated
C
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Subject: Re: Shakespeare referenced in songs or band names
Written By: Johnny_D on 02/22/06 at 11:06 am
Hi
just doing a homework project ::)
I know that some bands / songwriters reference Shakespeare in their songs or in the bands names
but I can only think of 'This Mortal Coil' which I think must come from the Hamlet soliloquy
any help appreciated
C
x
From the Cole Porter musical "Kiss Me Kate", the song "Brush Up Your Shakespeare":
ARTIST: Cole Porter
TITLE: Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Lyrics and Chords
The girls today in society go for classical poetry
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides
One must know Homer, and believe me, Beau
Sophocles, also Sappho-ho
Unless you know Shelley and Keats and Pope
Dainty Debbies will call you a dope
/ D - - A / - - / - D / - - / - A / - - / - D /
But the poet of them all
Who will start 'em simply ravin'
Is the poet people call
The Bard of Stratford on Avon
/ AD A / / / E A /
{Refrain}
Brush up your Shakespeare
Start quoting him now
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow
/ DB7 E7 / A7 D / G D / E7 A7 /
Just declaim a few lines from Othella
And they'll think you're a hell of a fella
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er
Tell her what Tony told Cleopatterer
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing
What are clothes? Much ado about nussing
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow
/ " / " / DB7 E7 / A D /
{Refrain}
With the wife of the British ambessida
Try a crack out of Troilus and Cressida
If she says she won't buy it or tike it
Make her tike it, what's more As You Like It
If she says your behavior is heinous
Kick her right in the Coriolanus
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow
{Refrain}
If you can't be a ham and do Hamlet
They will not give a damn or a damlet
Just recite an occasional sonnet
And your lap'll have honey upon it
When your baby is pleading for pleasure
Let her sample your Measure for Measure
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow - Forsooth
And they'll all kow-tow - I' faith
And they'll all kow-tow
... / A D / DA D / /
{Refrain}
Better mention "The Merchant Of Venice"
When her sweet pound o' flesh you would menace
If her virtue, at first, she defends---well
Just remind her that "All's Well That Ends Well"
And if still she won't give you a bonus
You know what Venus got from Adonis
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow - Thinkst thou?
And they'll all kow-tow - Odds bodkins
And they'll all kow-tow
{Refrain}
If your goil is a Washington Heights dream
Treat the kid to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
If she then wants an all-by-herself night
Let her rest ev'ry 'leventh or "Twelfth Night"
If because of your heat she gets huffy
Simply play on and "Lay on, Macduffy!"
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow - Forsooth
And they'll all kow-tow - Thinkst thou?
And they'll all kow-tow - We trou'
And they'll all kow-tow
Subject: Re: Shakespeare referenced in songs or band names
Written By: karen on 02/23/06 at 5:30 am
There are a few songs that use All that glisters is not gold - from The Merchant of Venice - usually modern variants of it. For example I woke up this morning with a song going through my head, a female singing all that glitters ain't gold but I'm not sure what her name is. It might be the Prince song Gold she is singing.
Subject: Shakespeare sister
Written By: Echo Nomad on 02/28/06 at 11:40 pm
And don't forget the 90's band- Shakespeare sister!
Subject: Re: Shakespeare referenced in songs or band names
Written By: whistledog on 03/01/06 at 8:19 pm
And don't forget the 90's band- Shakespeare sister!
or the song Shakespear's Sister by The Smiths, which is where the band got it's name from
Subject: Re: Shakespeare referenced in songs or band names
Written By: Babs on 03/03/06 at 5:03 pm
Hi Dire straits sang son called romeo and Juliet it was about a modern view of them! :)