{"id":4207,"date":"2013-04-12T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2017-08-20T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T20:26:17","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/4207","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the 31st in a series<\/a> of 40 pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Rights<\/strong>
\nsung to the tune of “Lights”<\/p>\n

(With apologies to Ellie Goulding, and those planning to read King John… SPOILERS!)<\/p>\n

I claimed divine rights,
\nRuling here on my own.
\nThere is a vague threat,
\nBut the king will not be overthrown.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not sleeping now;
\nThe French king has forced my hand.
\nAnd if I\u2019m staying strong,
\nI must do something drastic.<\/p>\n

You know the rights that boy has to the throne:
\nHe\u2019d claim them when he\u2019s grown.
\nAnd so I tell my man he must be strong,
\nInform me when he\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s falling, falling, falling way down,
\nFalling, falling, falling, down.
\nYou know the rights that boy has to the throne:
\nHe\u2019d claim them when he\u2019s grown.
\nOh-oh-oh\u2026<\/p>\n

I never thought
\nI would be king;
\nNever owned land,
\nAs I\u2019m the youngest brother.<\/p>\n

But that changed quickly when
\nMy father and my brothers died:
\nNow the Bastard is
\nThe only nephew who\u2019s safe.<\/p>\n

You know the rights that boy has to the throne:
\nHe\u2019d claim them when he\u2019s grown.
\nAnd so I tell my man he must be strong,
\nInform me when he\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s falling, falling, falling way down,
\nFalling, falling, falling, down.
\nYou know the rights that boy has to the throne:
\nHe\u2019d claim them when he\u2019s grown.
\nOh-oh-oh\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the 31st in a series of 40 pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. Enjoy! Rights sung to the tune of “Lights” (With apologies to Ellie Goulding, and those planning to read King John… SPOILERS!) I claimed divine rights, Ruling here on my own. There is a vague threat, But the king will not be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,4,12,48,78,3,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histories","category-history","category-humor","category-music","category-parody","category-shakespeare","category-plantagenets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207","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=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}