Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
From the 1948 Cole Porter musical “Kiss Me, Kate,” this number is the only one sung by a pair of unnamed gangsters who feature in the show’s secondary plot. Caught onstage and forced to improvise a song in the musical-within-a-musical version of The Taming of the Shrew, they sing about how knowledge...
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'll think you're a hell of a fella
If your blond won't respond when you flatter 'er
Tell her what Tony told Cleopatterer
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing
What are clothes? Much ado about nussing
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow
With the wife of the British ambessida
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 kow-tow, thinkst thou?
And they'll all kow-tow, odds Bodkins
All kow-tow
Brush Up Your Shakespeare was written by Cole Porter.