Cole Porter - Brush Up Your Shakespeare lyrics

The girls today in society go for cla**ical 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 Coriolan*s Brush up your Shakespeare And they'll all kow-tow, thinkst thou? And they'll all kow-tow, odds Bodkins All kow-tow