Lyr/Chords Req: Brush Up Your Shakespeare

Subject: brush up your shakespeare
From: GUEST,James Mcneil
Date: 06 Jan 01 - 12:21 AM

Hi, I know it is a bit of an odd request but I was wondering if anyone here had chords for the song brush up your shakespeare by cole porter from the musical kiss me kate. thanks james

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: brush up your shakespeare
From: MMario
Date: 06 Jan 01 - 12:27 AM

couldn't find them on the web - but they are available in this book:

Cole Porter Rediscovered For piano and voice with chord symbols

Miami FL: Warner Bros. Publications 0326B, 2000; 260 p. [ISBN 0-7692-8222-9]

Subject: Lyr Add: BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE (Cole Porter)
From: Sarah2
Date: 07 Jan 01 - 12:29 PM

BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE
(Cole Porter)

The girls today in society go for classical poetry.
So, to win their hearts one must quote with ease.
Aeschylus and Euripides.
One must know Homer, and b'lieve me, beau, Sophocles, also Sappho-ho.
Unless you know Shelly and Keats and Pope, dainty debbies will call you a dope.
But the poet of them all who will start 'em simply ravin'.
is the poet people call "The bard of Stratford on Avon."

Brush up your Shakespeare, start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare and the women you will wow.

Just declaim a few lines from Othella, and they'll think you're a helluva fella.
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er, tell her what Tony told Cleopat-er-er.
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing, what are clothes?
Much Ado About "Nussing."

Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
Brush up your Shakespeare, start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare and the women you will wow.

With the wife of the British Embessida, try a crack out of Troilus and Cressida.
If she says she won't buy it or tike it, make her tike it, what's more -
As You Like It!
If she says your behavior is heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus.

Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
Brush up your Shakespeare, start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare and the women you will wow.

If you can't be a ham and do Hamlet, they will not give a damn or a damnlet.
Just recite an occasional sonnet, and your lap'll have "Honey" upon it.
When your baby is pleading for pleasure, let her sample your Measure for Measure.

Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
Brush up your Shakespeare, start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare and the women you will wow.

Better mention the Merchant of Venice when her sweet pound o' flesh you would menace.
If her virtue, at first she defends, well…
just remind her that All's Well that Ends Well!
And if still she won't give her bonus, you know what Venus got from Adonis!

Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
(Thinks thou?)
And they'll all kowtow! (Odds bodkins!)
They'll all kowtow.
Brush up your Shakespeare, start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare and the women you will wow.

If your goil is a Washington Heights dream, treat the kid to
A Midsummer's Night's Dream.
If she then wants an all-by-her-self night, let her rest ev'ry 'leventh or Twelfth Night.
If because of your heat she gets huffy, simply play on and "Lay on, Macduffy!"

Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow! (We trow.)
And they'll all kowtow. (We vow.)
And they'll all kowtow!

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Found in the Rabbit whateveritiz forum, through the link in Mudcat FAQs.

Sarah

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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: brush up your shakespeare
From: GUEST,Sarah at work
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 07:37 PM

Refresh, in case requester comes looking again...

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: brush up your shakespeare
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 24 Oct 04 - 10:47 AM

Only heard this for the first time over the weekend on Australia's Radio National. You'll fins a MIDI HERE.

Regards, John

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: brush up your shakespeare
From: Flash Company
Date: 25 Oct 04 - 07:16 AM

Originally a one verse exit for the two gangsters who come to re-possess the theatre in Kiss me Kate, this stopped the show on the opening night. Porter, who knew a good thing when he saw one, had to write all the other verses to be used as encores!

FC

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: brush up your shakespeare
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 25 Oct 04 - 09:59 AM

I've given the MIDI above a good clean-up added the ltrics and will send to Joe tonight as an NWC file.

What a delicious song!

Regards, John

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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Brush Up Your Shakespeare
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 11:36 PM

MIDI added. Thanks, John.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Brush Up Your Shakespeare
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 12:46 AM

Had a wee chuckle when I saw the thread title. A late, great friend, a certain Mr Danny Kyle, had a pawky verbal advert on behalf of the Irish language which he used to insert into conversations now and again, in reference to a [mythical, I think!] book titled "Brush up Your Erse".

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Brush Up Your Shakespeare
From: GUEST,DrWired
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 01:19 AM

Thanks 4 the thread. And :) LOL to Boab !
cheers
dennis

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Brush Up Your Shakespeare
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 04:04 AM

We saw the show at Milton Keynes theatre a few weeks back: excellent all round, but particularly so was BUYS, with Les Dennis as oine of the gangsters. I'd only ever sen the film before, where the gangsters' part is very minimal and the song doesn't realy make sense there. Inthestage show they feature quite a lot, and the song is perfect. Go and see it!

Steve