{"id":3467,"date":"2012-09-14T20:35:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T01:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2012-09-14T20:53:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T01:53:59","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-thought-we-were-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/3467","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: Thought We Were Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oops, I did it again!  This is the seventh of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/parody\">series<\/a> of pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Thought We Were Friends<\/strong><br \/>\nsung to the tune of &#8220;Till the World Ends&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(With apologies to Britney Spears and, yeah, Shakespeare&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Been servant to you for my whole life, you see.<br \/>\nNever seen you behave so abnormally.<\/p>\n<p>Although you are my master,<br \/>\nYour words are a disaster.<br \/>\nI tell you of your honey;<br \/>\nYou ask me for your money.<br \/>\nI ask you if you\u2019re eating;<br \/>\nYou answer with a beating.<br \/>\nMaster, say, is everything all right?<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t take it, take it, take no more.<br \/>\nNever been like, been like this before.<br \/>\nC\u2019mon get me, get me off the floor.<br \/>\nMaster, what\u2019d you, what\u2019d you beat me for?<\/p>\n<p><center> *   *   * <\/center><\/p>\n<p>Say what else, but I know what I know did pass.<br \/>\nBeing kicked, I should kick, if I were an ass.<\/p>\n<p>You brought home guests for dinner;<br \/>\nThe doors were locked from inner.<br \/>\nYou left mad with the goldsmith;<br \/>\nA rope you said come back with.<br \/>\nThen, my task completing,<br \/>\nI earn another beating.<br \/>\nMaster, say, is everything all right?<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t take it, take it, take no more.<br \/>\nNever been like, been like this before.<br \/>\nC\u2019mon get me, get me off the floor.<br \/>\nMaster, what\u2019d you, what\u2019d you beat me for?<\/p>\n<p><center> *   *   * <\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you beat me, I must take it.<br \/>\nBut I really thought we were friends.<br \/>\nI\u2019m the servant; you\u2019re the master.<br \/>\nBut I really thought we were friends.<\/p>\n<p>But I really thought we were friends.<br \/>\nBut I really thought we were friends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oops, I did it again! This is the seventh of a series of pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. Enjoy! Thought We Were Friends sung to the tune of &#8220;Till the World Ends&#8221; (With apologies to Britney Spears and, yeah, Shakespeare&#8230;) Been servant to you for my whole life, you see. Never seen you behave so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,48,78,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-music","category-parody","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}