《Welcome to the Renaissance》歌词

[00:00:00] Welcome To The Renaissance (《Something Rotten!》音乐剧歌曲) - Michael James Scott/'Something Rotten' Ensemble

[00:00:09] War of the roses

[00:00:11] Chaucer's tale

[00:00:13] The brutal feudal system

[00:00:17] Holy crusade

[00:00:20] Bubonic plague

[00:00:22] Can't say that we've really missed them

[00:00:26] So dark and barbaric

[00:00:28] So dull and mundane

[00:00:30] That was so middle ages

[00:00:33] That was so Charlemagne

[00:00:38] Welcome to the Renaissance

[00:00:42] With poets painters

[00:00:43] And bon vivants

[00:00:45] And merry minstrels

[00:00:47] Who stroll the streets of London

[00:00:49] A strummin' they lutes

[00:00:51] In puffy pants and pointy leather boots

[00:00:53] Welcome to the Renaissance

[00:00:56] Where we ooh and aah you with ambiance

[00:01:00] We're so progressive

[00:01:02] The latest and the greatest

[00:01:03] We bring it to you

[00:01:05] With much I do

[00:01:07] Welcome to the Renaissance

[00:01:11] Where everything is new

[00:01:15] Here we've made advances in the sciences

[00:01:18] We have the latest gadgets and appliances

[00:01:22] Are mugs are made of pewter

[00:01:23] Our houses all are tudor

[00:01:25] Decorated with a modern flair

[00:01:29] See us with our petticoats and farthingales

[00:01:33] Our trendy beards we trim to look

[00:01:34] Like swallow tails

[00:01:36] We're called Elizabethans

[00:01:38] They're all a bunch of Heathens

[00:01:40] Heathens heading straight for you know where

[00:01:43] While witches are burning and

[00:01:44] Wars tend to start

[00:01:47] We bring you moments of culture and art

[00:01:52] Culture and art

[00:01:56] Welcome to the Renaissance

[00:01:59] Well our printing press has the fancy fonts

[00:02:02] That's right we're fancy

[00:02:04] And very literary theatrical too

[00:02:08] It's what we do

[00:02:10] Welcome to the Renaissance

[00:02:13] Where everything is new

[00:02:22] Hey look it's Francis Bacon

[00:02:24] With a chicken

[00:02:25] What's he makin'

[00:02:26] Well I think he's found a way of

[00:02:27] Freezing heat

[00:02:28] That's new

[00:02:29] Hey look it's Walter Raleigh

[00:02:30] Found a new world by golly

[00:02:32] And he's brought us all

[00:02:33] Tobacco What a treat

[00:02:34] Also new

[00:02:35] And we have a list of writers who

[00:02:37] Are always writing something new

[00:02:40] It's true

[00:02:41] We do

[00:02:42] Like who

[00:02:43] Like who

[00:02:43] Like Dekker

[00:02:44] Woo

[00:02:45] John Webster

[00:02:46] Woo

[00:02:47] Ben Johnson

[00:02:47] Uh uh

[00:02:48] And Christopher Marlowe

[00:02:50] Thomas Kyd

[00:02:51] Thomas Middleton

[00:02:53] Thomas Moore

[00:02:55] And our brightest star

[00:02:56] Yo he's the bomb

[00:02:58] The soul of the age

[00:03:00] The whiz of the Elizabethan stage

[00:03:03] He's incredible unforgettable

[00:03:09] He's just so freakin' awesome

[00:03:13] Shakespeare

[00:03:16] Shakespeare

[00:03:27] We love him we love him

[00:03:29] We love him we love him

[00:03:30] We love him

[00:03:31] We love him we love him

[00:03:33] We love him

[00:03:34] His plays are so brilliant

[00:03:35] His writing first rate

[00:03:37] His acting's incredible

[00:03:39] Isn't he great

[00:03:42] Isn't he great

[00:03:45] We love him

[00:03:48] Welcome to the Renaissance

[00:03:51] Not the one in Italy or in France

[00:03:55] No the one in England

[00:03:57] The one where William Shakespeare

[00:03:59] Is the cream of the crop

[00:04:01] The one where William Shakespeare

[00:04:02] Is the top

[00:04:03] Welcome to the Renaissance

[00:04:06] To a 16th century experience

[00:04:10] In the age that's golden

[00:04:12] The olden days are over

[00:04:14] We bid them adieu

[00:04:16] Well hal le lu

[00:04:18] Welcome to the Renaissance

[00:04:21] Where everthing is new

[00:04:29] Everything is new

[00:04:32] Welcome to the Renaissance

[00:04:35] Everthing is new

[00:04:37] 'Cause Renaissance means rebirth