{"id":4345,"date":"2013-06-14T23:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T04:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2017-08-20T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T20:33:26","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-blood-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/4345","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: Blood Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the 38th in a series<\/a> of 40 pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Blood Lines<\/strong>
\nsung to the tune of “Blurred Lines”<\/p>\n

(With apologies to Robin Thicke, T.I., and Pharrell)<\/p>\n

Come hither, Harry…<\/p>\n

Hey, hey, hey!
\nHey, hey, hey!
\nHey, hey, hey!<\/p>\n

You took that crown
\nBefore it was your time,
\nBut you will find that
\nIt was a minor crime.
\nIn just a half an hour,
\nYou\u2019ll have that regal power,
\nBecause I\u2019m going to die.<\/p>\n

Okay, that Jack Falstaff
\nTried to contaminate you,
\nBut you\u2019re of royal blood.
\nIt isn\u2019t in your nature.<\/p>\n

Just let me educate you (hey, hey, hey).
\nYou don\u2019t owe him favors (hey, hey, hey).
\nThat man is not your greater (hey, hey, hey),
\nAnd that\u2019s because your claim is…<\/p>\n

Rightful.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYour claim is rightful.
\nYou want details.
\nYou\u2019re the Prince of Wales,
\nAnd that here prevails.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got the blood lines.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYour claim is rightful.
\nI was King Harry;
\nNow you\u2019re King Harry.
\nThat name you\u2019ll carry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When you\u2019re there aberrant,
\nIt can scare a parent
\nOf the heir apparent;
\nYou\u2019re the next in line for the throne!
\nYour friend is poison (hey, hey, hey).
\nYou can\u2019t be loyal (hey, hey, hey).
\nWhat rhymes with loyal (hey, hey, hey)?<\/p>\n

Okay, that Jack Falstaff
\nTried to contaminate you,
\nBut you\u2019re of royal blood.
\nIt isn\u2019t in your nature.<\/p>\n

Just let me educate you (hey, hey, hey).
\nYou don\u2019t owe him favors (hey, hey, hey).
\nThat man is not your greater (hey, hey, hey),
\nAnd that\u2019s because your claim is,,,<\/p>\n

Rightful.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYour claim is rightful.
\nYou want details.
\nYou\u2019re the Prince of Wales,
\nAnd that here prevails.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got the blood lines.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYour claim is rightful.
\nI was King Harry;
\nNow you\u2019re King Harry.
\nThat name you\u2019ll carry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One thing I ask of you:
\nThat my final counsel you listen to,
\nFrom a dying king to his offspring.
\nI stole this crown, but here\u2019s the thing:
\nI have to say as I pass it down,
\nMy son, uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
\nWith you, it will descend more quiet.
\nI mean, it\u2019s still not easy, you try it.
\nThen, you must make my friends your friends.
\nBe it thy course to busy giddy minds
\nWith foreign quarrels, that action hence bourne
\nOut, may waste the memory of the former days.
\nMore would I, but my lungs are wasted so.
\nO, the Holy Land!
\nI won\u2019t be going there as I had planned.
\nBut this room is named Jerusalem, where I\u2019ll meet my end.<\/p>\n

Change the king, from Fourth to Fifth.
\nDo it quite forthwith, quite forthwith.
\nNow you\u2019ll create a myth, hey!<\/p>\n

Harry, can you lead?
\nI know that this is sudden.
\nYou\u2019re now the crowned monarch,
\nFrom Manchester to London, uh huh.
\nNo more schooling (hey, hey, hey),
\n\u2018Cause now you\u2019re ruling (hey, hey, hey),
\nAnd that\u2019s no fooling (hey, hey, hey).<\/p>\n

You know your claim is rightful.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYour claim is rightful.
\nYou want details.
\nYou\u2019re the Prince of Wales,
\nAnd that here prevails.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got the blood lines.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYou know you\u2019ve got it.
\nYour claim is rightful.
\nI was King Harry;
\nNow you\u2019re King Harry.
\nThat name you\u2019ll carry.<\/p>\n

Now here I lie,
\nAnd here I die.
\nHey, hey, hey!
\nHey, hey, hey!
\nHey, hey, hey!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the 38th in a series of 40 pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. Enjoy! Blood Lines sung to the tune of “Blurred Lines” (With apologies to Robin Thicke, T.I., and Pharrell) Come hither, Harry… Hey, hey, hey! Hey, hey, hey! Hey, hey, hey! You took that crown Before it was your time, But you […]<\/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-4345","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\/4345","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=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}