Brush Up Your Shakespeare 1949 Cole Porter

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 21 Feb 2012
2012

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 b'lieve me, bo,
Sophocles also Sapphoho
Unless you know Shelley and Keats and Pope,
Dainty debbies will call you a dope.
But the poet of them all
Who will start 'em simply ravin'
Is the poet people call
The bard of StratfordonAvon.

Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
Just declaim a few lines from "Othella"
And they think you're a heckuva fella.
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er
Tell her what Tony told Cleopaterer,
And if still, to be shocked, she pretends well,
Just remind her that:
"All's Well That Ends Well."
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kowtow.

Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
If your goil is a Washington Heights dream
Treat the kid to "A Midsummer Night Dream."
With the wife of the British Embessida
Try a crack out of Troilus and Cressida,
Is she says she won't buy it or take it
Make her take it, what's more
"As You Like it."
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kowtow.

Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
If you can't be a ham
and do Hamlet
they will not give a damn or a damnlet.
Just recite an occasional sonnet
and you 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 kowtow!

Soft karaoke
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lyric
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Brush Up Your Shakespeare 1949 Cole Porter
from "Kiss Me Late"
by Cole Porter
© 1949 by Cole Porter
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 21 February 2012 at 19.08
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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