La! LA! Laertes!
I’ve Been a
Mechanical (to “Wild Rover”)
The Tempest-O (to “Rattlin’ Bog”)
Romeo is Dead and Gone (to “A Drop
of Nelson’s blood”)
What do you do with a Shakespeare Actor? (to “Drunken Sailor”)
What’s Hamlet’s Problem? (to “Green
Grow the Rushes”)
It Happened Again (to “Johnny Jump
Up”)
Stabbity Stab (To “Beer, beer,
beer”)
A Disagreeable Lass (To “Black
Velvet Band”)
Write a Good Play (To “Lukey’s
Boat”)
Nick: The Theme
Song (To “Donkey Riding”)
Regicide (To
“The Ship that Never Returned”)
A Song about
Nothing (To “The Night Paddy Murphy Died”)
I Do Not
Understand (To “Whiskey in the Jar”)
Obscurity (To
“General Taylor”)
Iambic
Pentameter (To “Mingulay Boat Song”)
Watch a
Shakespeare Play? (To “Gee Mom, I Wanna Go
Home!”)
The Mechanicals take many of
the songs commonly heard upon the ground of your local renaissance festival,
and “improve” them with their own lyrics-and make fun of Shakespeare while
they’re at it!