{"id":4043,"date":"2013-02-15T08:23:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T13:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2013-02-21T15:45:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:45:31","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/4043","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 24th 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>Valentine<\/strong><br \/>\nrapped to the beat of &#8220;Back in Time&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(With apologies to Pitbull, and the Men in Black franchise&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Please excuse me, lady.<br \/>\nOh, yeah you, lady.<br \/>\nNow, let\u2019s do Shakespeare, lady.<br \/>\nYeah, let\u2019s stage a play here, lady.<\/p>\n<p>Please excuse me, lady.<br \/>\nOh, yeah you, lady.<br \/>\nNow, let\u2019s do Shakespeare, lady.<br \/>\nYeah, let\u2019s stage a play here, lady.<\/p>\n<p>The Two Gentlemen.<br \/>\nOf Verona. In Milan.<br \/>\nAt the Duke\u2019s palace,<br \/>\nProteus, Valentine, now it\u2019s on.<\/p>\n<p>Julia, oh Julia,<br \/>\nOh, Julia, my sweet Julia,<br \/>\nYou\u2019re the one!<\/p>\n<p>Milan equals doublet and hose, knee-length socks,<br \/>\nWith a tanned leather belt to tie; I\u2019ve got it!<br \/>\nPuffy sleeves, fancy shoes, a high stiff collar, and a feathered cap.<br \/>\nLike Valentine or Thurio, impress Silvia if they could, okay.<br \/>\nI\u2019m tryna be reptilian with a friend pretense,<br \/>\nUnderhanded, no-good,<br \/>\nI\u2019m a liar, a cheat, a fabricator, and a<br \/>\nFalsifier, equivocator, out of hand a<br \/>\nTrickster, dissimulator, as I planned a<br \/>\nWay that I can consummate her.<br \/>\nTo wrong my friend this way, much shame will be mine.<br \/>\nBut to satisfy Proteus, I have to cross Valentine.<\/p>\n<p>Silvia, oh Silvia,<br \/>\nOh, Silvia, my sweet Silvia,<br \/>\nYou\u2019re the one!<\/p>\n<p>I got the girl, yeah, out in the wood,<br \/>\nTo win her over, any way I could.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s when you came.<br \/>\nTwo Gentlemen, we meet again.<br \/>\nI professed my love.  It wasn\u2019t enough.<br \/>\nAnd then I just lost control, got a little bit rough.<br \/>\nI\u2019m glad you came and intervened.<br \/>\nI hope that I can still be redeemed.<br \/>\nYou know I\u2019m sorry, I couldn\u2019t fool ya,<br \/>\nAnd Sebastian\u2019s identity learned: it\u2019s Julia.<br \/>\nTo behave this way, much shame has been mine.<br \/>\nBut to reconcile Proteus, I have to love Valentine.<\/p>\n<p>Julia, oh Julia,<br \/>\nOh, Julia, my sweet Julia,<br \/>\nYou\u2019re the one!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 24th in a series of pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. Enjoy! Valentine rapped to the beat of &#8220;Back in Time&#8221; (With apologies to Pitbull, and the Men in Black franchise&#8230;) Please excuse me, lady. Oh, yeah you, lady. Now, let\u2019s do Shakespeare, lady. Yeah, let\u2019s stage a play here, lady. Please excuse [&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-4043","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\/4043","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=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}