{"id":3709,"date":"2012-11-23T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2012-11-25T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T20:16:07","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-you-should-never-ever-trust-a-bastard-edgar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/3709","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: You Should Never Ever Trust a Bastard, Edgar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the twelfth 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>\n<strong>You Should Never Ever Trust a Bastard, Edgar<\/strong><br \/>\nsung to the tune of &#8220;We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(With apologies to Taylor Swift, and bastards&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I remember when we met up this last time.<br \/>\nYou were my brother from another mother, cause like,<br \/>\nWe hadn\u2019t seen each other for nine years,<br \/>\nBecause the bastard had to be sent away. (What?)<\/p>\n<p>Then I come around again and say \u201cEddie,<br \/>\nFather\u2019s angry and you need to run away.  Trust me.\u201d<br \/>\nRemember how I drew on you that day?<br \/>\nI said \u201cYou must leave,\u201d I fought you, you took off, I screwed you.<\/p>\n<p>Oooh, you\u2019ve never really known my mind,<br \/>\nBut oooh, this time I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019m telling you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You should never ever ever trust a bastard, Edgar.<br \/>\nYou should never ever ever trust a bastard, Edgar.<br \/>\nOur father\u2019s lands were your lands, now those lands belong to me.<br \/>\n\u2018Cause you should never ever ever ever trust a bastard, Edgar.<\/p>\n<p>Like, ever!<\/p>\n<p>I always thought it seemed quite out of place<br \/>\nFor one brother to be proper and one base,<br \/>\nBut you always seemed to think it very fine<br \/>\nThat your birthright was so much more rightful than mine.<\/p>\n<p>Oooh, you\u2019ve never really known my mind,<br \/>\nBut oooh, this time I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019m telling you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You should never ever ever trust a bastard, Edgar.<br \/>\nYou should never ever ever trust a bastard, Edgar.<br \/>\nOur father\u2019s lands were your lands, now those lands belong to me.<br \/>\n\u2018Cause you should never ever ever ever trust a bastard, Edgar.<\/p>\n<p>You never knew it was I who wrote that letter, letter<br \/>\nLike I heard the king say \u201cNever, never, never, never, never.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ugh, so he shows up and he\u2019s like \u201cdraw thy sword.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m like\u2026 \u201cthis sword of mine will let your treasons rest forever.\u201d<br \/>\nYou know? You should never trust a bastard, Edgar.  <\/p>\n<p>Like, ever!<\/p>\n<p>No!<br \/>\nYou should never ever ever trust a bastard, Edgar.<br \/>\nYou should never ever ever trust a bastard, Edgar.<br \/>\nOur father\u2019s lands were your lands, now those lands belong to me.<br \/>\n\u2018Cause you should never ever ever ever trust a bastard, Edgar.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the twelfth in a series of pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. Enjoy! You Should Never Ever Trust a Bastard, Edgar sung to the tune of &#8220;We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together&#8221; (With apologies to Taylor Swift, and bastards&#8230;) I remember when we met up this last time. You were my brother from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,58,48,78,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-king-lear","category-music","category-parody","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","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=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}