Pen Us A Play You're The Stratford Man

Stratford Man

by Willie "Shakespeare" Joel, Shakespeare Geek, and Bardfilm

It's a pretty good crowd at the Globe today

The groundlings aren't throwing their food.

It's William Shakespeare that they've all come to hear

When they want to see tamings of shrews. 

Chorus: 

Pen us a play you're the Stratford man

We'll hear a show tonight.

A comedy or maybe a tragedy,

When you write them they come out right.

Now Marlowe's a well known playwright

Who also might be a spy.

It's been rumored that he's writing your histories

But the thing is, he's already died.

And Oxford's a second-rate nobleman 

Who really likes sheep—so I hear. 

But one glance says he can't write poetry, 

So forget about Edward de Vere.

Oh, la la la, di da da 

La la, di da da da dum 

Pen us a play you're the Stratford man

We'll hear a show tonight.

A comedy or maybe a tragedy,

When you write them they come out right.

Well, Burbage is theatre manager—

He also snags all the good parts—

And he’s half full of sack lying there on his back

Bitter cold, and quite sick at heart. 

He says, “Will, can you do that soliloquy?

I’m not really sure if it’s there,

But it starts with ‘to be’ and says ‘to die; to sleep’

And it asks who would these fardels bear." 

La la la, di da da 

La la, di da da da dum 

Pen us a play you're the Stratford man

We'll hear a show tonight.

A comedy or maybe a tragedy,

When you write them they come out right.