Misc Musicals – Something Rotten - Welcome To The Renaissance (Guitar)

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War of the roses Chaucer’s tales

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The brutal feudal system

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Holy crusades, Bubonic plague

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Can’t say that we’ve really missed them

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So dark and barbaric,

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So dull and mundane

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That was so Middle Ages

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That was so Charlemagne

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Welcome to the Renaissance

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With poets, painters and bon vivants

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And merry minstrels, who

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Stroll the streets of London

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A-strumming their lutes

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And puffy pants and pointy leather boots

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Welcome to the Renaissance

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Where we ooh and aah you with ambiance

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We’re so progressive

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The latest and the greatest

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We bring it to you

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With much ado

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Welcome to the Renaissance

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Where everything is new

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Here we’ve made advances in the sciences

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We have the latest gadgets and appliances

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Our mugs are made of pewter

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Our houses all are Tudor

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Decorated with a modern flair

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See us in our petticoats and farthingales

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Our trendy beards we trim to look like swallow tails

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We’re called Elizabethans

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They’re all a bunch of heathens

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Heathens heading straight for you-know-where

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While witches are burning and wars tend to start

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We bring you moments of culture and  art (Culture and  art)

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Welcome to the Renaissance

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Where our printing press has the fancy fonts

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That’s right we’re fancy  

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And very literary

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Theatrical too

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It’s what we do

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Welcome to the Renaissance

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Where everything is new

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Hey, look, it's Francis Bacon with a chicken, what's he making?

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Well, I think he's found a way of freezing meat, that's new

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 Hey, look, it's Walter Raleigh, found a new world, by golly

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And he's brought us all tobacco, what a treat, also new

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And we have a list of writers who are always writing something new

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It's true!  We do!  Like who? Like who?

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Like Dekker! (Whoo!) John Webster! (Whoo!)

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Ben Jonson! (Uh-huh!) And Chris-topher Marlowe!

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  Thomas Kyd, Thomas Middleton

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Thomas More. And   our brightest star. Yo!

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He's the bomb, the soul of the age

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   The wiz of the Elizabethan stage

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He's incredible,        unforgettable

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He's just so freakin' awesome!

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Shakespeare! Shakespeare!

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We love him, we love him, we love him, we love him

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We love him, we love him, we love him, we love him

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His brains are so brilliant, his writing's first-rate

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His acting's incredible, isn't he great?

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We love him, we love him, (Isn't he great?) we love him, we love him

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  Welcome to the Renaissance

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Not the one in Italy or in France

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No, the one in England, the one where William Shakespeare

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Is cream of the crop (The one where William Shakespeare is the top)

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        Welcome to the Renaissance (Renaissance)

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To the 16th - century experience (Experience, yeah)

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In the age that's golden, the olden days are over

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We bid them adieu, well, Hallelu'

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Welcome to the Renaissance

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Where every - thing is    new

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Everything is new

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Welcome to the Renaissance

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Everything is new

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'Cause Renaissance means rebirth!