Brush Up Your Shakespeare

Brush Up Your Shakespeare - Various Artists

The girls today in society go for classical poetry

So to win their hearts one must quote with ease

Aeschylus ans Euripides

One must know Homer and believe me bone

Sophocles also Sappho-ho

Unless you know Shelley and Keats and Pope

Dainty Debbies will call you a **

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 hell of a fella

If your blonde won't respond when you flatter

Tell her what Tony told Cleopatterer

If she fights when her clothes you are mussing

What are clothes Much ado about nothing

Brush up your Shakespeare

And they'll all kow-tow

Brush up your Shakespeare

Start quoting him now

Brush up your Shakespeare

And the women you will wow

With the wife of the British ambassida

Try a crack out of "Troilus and Cressida"

If your baby won't buy it or tike it

Make her tike it what's more

As you like it

As she says your behavior is heinous

Kick her right in the Coriolanus

Brush up your Shakespeare

And they'll all kow-tow

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 just don't give a damn or a damlet

Just recite an occasional sonnet

And your lap'll have honey upon it

If your baby is pleading for pleasure

Let her sample you Measure for Measure

Brush up your Shakespeare

And they'll all kow-tow

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 of flesh you would menace

In her virtue at first she defends well

Just remind her that "All is Well That End is Well"

And if still she won't give you a bonus

You know what Venus got from Adonis

Brush up your Shakespeare

And they'll all kow-tow

Thinkist thou

All kow-tow

We thou

And they'll all kow-tow