{"id":3734,"date":"2012-12-14T22:17:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T03:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2012-12-15T19:33:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T00:33:22","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-where-we-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/3734","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: Where We Belong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 15th 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>Where We Belong<\/strong><br \/>\nsung to the tune of &#8220;All Summer Long&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(With apologies to Kid Rock, and whoever that is singing the version I downloaded from iTunes&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>It was 31 BC; I was a Roman far from home,<br \/>\nLeading troops of soldiers rank and file.<br \/>\nShe was Egypt\u2019s queen; she was a sight had to be seen,<br \/>\nAs she rode her barge along the River Nile.<\/p>\n<p>When messengers from Rome<br \/>\nBrought letters saying to come home,<br \/>\nAnother man might yield to Caesar\u2019s call.<br \/>\nBut feeling what I felt,<br \/>\nI said \u201cLet Rome in Tiber melt,<br \/>\nAnd the wide arch of the ranged empire fall!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019d extravagantly dine,<br \/>\nDissolving pearls into our wine,<br \/>\nListening to flutes and harps and boys enjoined in song,<br \/>\nIgnoring letters from my wives,<br \/>\nAnd endangering our lives,<br \/>\nSo we could be together, where we belong.<\/p>\n<p>Drinking from one chalice,<br \/>\nDancing in her palace,<br \/>\nMaking love on a couch enrobed in silk,<br \/>\nAbandoning all cares,<br \/>\nOf political affairs,<br \/>\nWhile servants brought us honey, figs, and milk.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019d extravagantly dine,<br \/>\nDissolving pearls into our wine,<br \/>\nListening to flutes and harps and boys enjoined in song,<br \/>\nIgnoring letters from my wives,<br \/>\nAnd endangering our lives,<br \/>\nSo we could be together, where we belong.<\/p>\n<p>Well I gave her my last breath, and she joined me soon in death,<br \/>\nBut what we gained was more than we had lost.<br \/>\nSo if you hear this song, and you know where you belong,<br \/>\nThen you have to go, regardless of the cost!<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019d extravagantly dine,<br \/>\nDissolving pearls into our wine,<br \/>\nListening to flutes and harps and boys enjoined in song,<br \/>\nIgnoring letters from my wives,<br \/>\nAnd surrendering our lives,<br \/>\nSo we could be together, where we belong.<\/p>\n<p>So we could be together, where we belong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 15th in a series of pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. Enjoy! Where We Belong sung to the tune of &#8220;All Summer Long&#8221; (With apologies to Kid Rock, and whoever that is singing the version I downloaded from iTunes&#8230;) It was 31 BC; I was a Roman far from home, Leading troops of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,4,12,48,78,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-and-cleopatra","category-history","category-humor","category-music","category-parody","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","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=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}