{"id":3689,"date":"2012-11-09T18:25:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T23:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2017-08-20T15:06:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T20:06:27","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-one-more-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/3689","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: One More Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the eleventh in 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><strong>One More Knight<\/strong><br \/>\nsung to the tune of &#8220;One More Night&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(With apologies to Maroon 5, and St. Cripin&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>You and I look hard at each other while preparing for war.<br \/>\nYou and I assess that our troop levels are less than before.<br \/>\nYou and I agree it\u2019s an issue that we should not ignore.<br \/>\nYou and I diverge on the question of our wishing for more.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, today\u2019s the feast of Crispin, Crispianus,<br \/>\nThis day is holy-y,<br \/>\nAnd those who fight with us here, fight with us here,<br \/>\nShall be not lowly-y,<br \/>\nAnd yearly when this day comes, when this day comes,<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll tell the story-y,<br \/>\nAnd so the fewer the men, fewer the men,<br \/>\nThe greater share of glory-y.<\/p>\n<p>We few are enough, if we\u2019re marked to die,<br \/>\nAnd so now I pray, wish not one more knight.<br \/>\nRather take their leave, those who would not fight,<br \/>\nBut I pray thee, coz, wish not one more knight.<\/p>\n<p>Gentlemen of England,<br \/>\nWho are now home resting quiet in bed,<br \/>\nWill curse themselves,<br \/>\nThey were not here fighting with us instead,<br \/>\nHold their manhoods cheap,<br \/>\nAnd find there\u2019s little more that they have to say,<br \/>\nTo the heroes that fought<br \/>\nAlongside the King on St. Crispin\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, today\u2019s the feast of Crispin, Crispianus,<br \/>\nThis day is holy-y,<br \/>\nAnd those who fight with us here, fight with us here,<br \/>\nShall be not lowly-y,<br \/>\nAnd yearly when this day comes, when this day comes,<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll tell the story-y,<br \/>\nAnd so the fewer the men, fewer the men,<br \/>\nThe greater share of glory-y.<\/p>\n<p>We few are enough, if we\u2019re marked to die,<br \/>\nAnd so now I pray, wish not one more knight.<br \/>\nRather take their leave, those who would not fight,<br \/>\nBut I pray thee, coz, wish not one more knight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the eleventh in a series of pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. Enjoy! One More Knight sung to the tune of &#8220;One More Night&#8221; (With apologies to Maroon 5, and St. Cripin&#8230;) You and I look hard at each other while preparing for war. You and I assess that our troop levels are less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,4,48,78,46,3,43,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histories","category-history","category-music","category-parody","category-religion","category-shakespeare","category-the-letter-y","category-plantagenets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","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=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6458,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions\/6458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}