{"id":4358,"date":"2013-06-21T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2017-08-20T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T20:32:49","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-i-have-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/4358","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: I Have Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 39th in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/parody\">series<\/a> of 40 pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I Have Won<\/strong><br \/>\nsung to the tune of &#8220;We Are Young&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(With apologies to Fun and Janelle Mon\u00e1e)<\/p>\n<p>Give me a second, I<br \/>\nI need to get my vengeance straight:<br \/>\nThe steward and the fool have<br \/>\nDrunk more wine than they have body weight,<br \/>\nMy brother he is washed ashore<br \/>\nWith others just as bad,<br \/>\nThe kid is being led by Ariel<br \/>\nSinging about his dad, and<br \/>\nI know they all betrayed me years ago.<br \/>\nI can forgive but not forget.<br \/>\nSo I made a storm and food transform<br \/>\nWith magical technologies, you know,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not so hard to pay them back.<br \/>\nBut by six in the evening<br \/>\nWhen the sun is going down,<br \/>\nI\u2019ll let it all go.<\/p>\n<p>This fight<br \/>\nI have won,<br \/>\nFor the crime that was my brother\u2019s,<br \/>\nAnd for the others;<br \/>\nWhat they\u2019ve done!<\/p>\n<p>This fight<br \/>\nI have won,<br \/>\nFor the crime that was my brother\u2019s,<br \/>\nAnd for the others;<br \/>\nWhat they\u2019ve done!<\/p>\n<p>Now, don\u2019t tell me you\u2019d not<br \/>\nDeserve more than you got.<br \/>\nI guess that I, I just thought<br \/>\nMaybe I could show you how to have a heart.<br \/>\nThough I paid you back,<br \/>\nI showed mercy most,<br \/>\nAnd now it\u2019s time to let it all go.<\/p>\n<p>This fight<br \/>\nI have won,<br \/>\nFor the crime that was my brother\u2019s,<br \/>\nAnd for the others;<br \/>\nWhat they\u2019ve done!<\/p>\n<p>This fight<br \/>\nI have won,<br \/>\nFor the crime that was my brother\u2019s,<br \/>\nAnd for the others;<br \/>\nWhat they\u2019ve done!<\/p>\n<p>But by six in the evening<br \/>\nWhen the sun is going down,<br \/>\nI\u2019ll let it all go: this fight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 39th in a series of 40 pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. Enjoy! I Have Won sung to the tune of &#8220;We Are Young&#8221; (With apologies to Fun and Janelle Mon\u00e1e) Give me a second, I I need to get my vengeance straight: The steward and the fool have Drunk more wine than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,48,78,3,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-music","category-parody","category-shakespeare","category-tempest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","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=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6487,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}