{"id":3928,"date":"2013-01-11T10:29:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T15:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2013-09-01T12:51:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T17:51:52","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-i-schemed-a-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/3928","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: I Schemed a Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 19th 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>I Schemed a Scheme<\/strong><br \/>\nsung to the tune of &#8220;I Dreamed a Dream&#8221; from Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/p>\n<p>(With congratulations to Best Supporting Actress nominee Anne Hathaway&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>There was a crime here in my mind,<br \/>\nWhen I\u2019d find these wives,<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019d come a-wooing.<br \/>\nThere was a crime to rob them blind,<br \/>\nAnd I would earn their trust,<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019d be their undoing.<br \/>\nThere was a crime,<br \/>\nThen it all went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I schemed a scheme so long ago,<br \/>\nWhen a desperate man could earn a shilling.<br \/>\nI schemed the husbands would not know;<br \/>\nI schemed the wives would be more willing.<br \/>\nI never gave a second thought,<br \/>\nFor schemes were gold, success expected.<br \/>\nThere was no fear of getting caught,<br \/>\nNo trap unsprung, no purse neglected.<\/p>\n<p>But they put me in a basket,<br \/>\nAnd they threw me in the river.<br \/>\nWell, it might have been my casket,<br \/>\nAnd it turned my scheme to rage.<br \/>\nThey would not let me in their lives;<br \/>\nThey left me soaking in a shiver.<br \/>\nAnd I must blame the merry wives<br \/>\nOf Master Ford and Master Page.<br \/>\nAnd still I scheme they\u2019ll come to me,<br \/>\nAnd they will open up their purses.<br \/>\nBut there are schemes that cannot be,<br \/>\nAnd there are blessings turned to curses.<\/p>\n<p>I had a scheme these wives would be<br \/>\nSo different from the way I found them;<br \/>\nSo different now from how I schemed.<br \/>\nThese wives have killed<br \/>\nThe scheme I schemed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 19th in a series of pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. Enjoy! I Schemed a Scheme sung to the tune of &#8220;I Dreamed a Dream&#8221; from Les Mis\u00e9rables (With congratulations to Best Supporting Actress nominee Anne Hathaway&#8230;) There was a crime here in my mind, When I\u2019d find these wives, And I\u2019d come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,12,48,78,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anne-hathaway","category-humor","category-music","category-parody","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","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=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}