Brush Up Your Shakespeare (Kiss Me Kate)

The girls today in society

Go for classical poetry,

So to win their hearts one must quote with ease

Aeschylus and Euripides.

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 think you're a helluva fella.

If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er

Tell her what Tony told Cleopaterer ,

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.

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,

And they'll all kowtow,

And they'll all kowtow.