{"id":4158,"date":"2013-03-15T18:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T23:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2017-08-20T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T20:24:25","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-saying-sooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/4158","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: Saying Sooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 27th 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>Saying Sooth<\/strong><br \/>\nsung to the tune of &#8220;Bulletproof&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(With apologies to La Roux, and sayers of sooth&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Looked there, saw that, got a sense;<br \/>\nI know your fate, don\u2019t take offense.<br \/>\nYour future isn\u2019t looking too upbeat.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t mean to sound too harsh,<br \/>\nBut please beware the Ides of March,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a day for just not going in.<\/p>\n<p>I bring you news that can\u2019t be worse,<br \/>\nI have a gift, but it\u2019s a curse;<br \/>\nMy prophecy, surprisingly concrete.<br \/>\nLooked there, saw that, got a sense;<br \/>\nI know your fate, don\u2019t take offense.<br \/>\nYour future isn\u2019t looking too upbeat.<\/p>\n<p>Hear me, Caesar.<br \/>\nI am saying sooth.<br \/>\nHear me, Caesar.<br \/>\nI am saying sooth.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t let you turn around,<br \/>\nDismiss me now without a sound,<br \/>\nTo show that you\u2019re no easy man to scare.<br \/>\nDo, do, do your new accords,<br \/>\nProtect your skin from traitors&#8217; swords?<br \/>\nThe Ides of March are what you should beware.<\/p>\n<p>Tick, tick, tick on the dial;<br \/>\nYour wife&#8217;s bad dreams beyond denial,<br \/>\nThe Ides of March have come but haven\u2019t gone.<br \/>\nI won\u2019t let you turn around,<br \/>\nDismiss me now without a sound:<br \/>\nA risky thing for betting your life on.<\/p>\n<p>Hear me, Caesar.<br \/>\nI am saying sooth.<br \/>\nHear me, Caesar.<br \/>\nI am saying sooth.<\/p>\n<p>Hear me, I am saying sooth.<br \/>\nHear me, I am saying sooth.<\/p>\n<p>Hear me, Caesar.<br \/>\nI am saying sooth.<br \/>\nHear me, Caesar.<br \/>\nI am saying sooth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 27th in a series of pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. Enjoy! Saying Sooth sung to the tune of &#8220;Bulletproof&#8221; (With apologies to La Roux, and sayers of sooth&#8230;) Looked there, saw that, got a sense; I know your fate, don\u2019t take offense. Your future isn\u2019t looking too upbeat. I don&#8217;t mean to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,122,48,78,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humor","category-julius-caesar","category-music","category-parody","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","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=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}