C
My name is Shakespeare, William
  Dm              G
I owned a feather quill, I am
    Dm             G        C
The writer most familiar to you
   C
My way with words amazes me
     Dm              G
Came up with so many phrases me
     Dm               G        E   A7
That still the number dazes me too
            D7                    G
Oh, “You’ve got to be cruel to be kind”
    E                           A7
“If truth were known”, “Love is blind”
    D                             G
Yet each of these quotes you will find
            C
It’s what I do


[Chorus 1]
C     B  Bb  A7
“Seen better days” (That’s one of his)
A          D                D7
Ah, “Salad days” (He is the biz)
                   G
“All the world’s a stage”
                   C  E7  A7
They call me Billy Whizz
D7*
May seem kind of scary
      G*
I’m a walking dictionary
G#*             G7*              B  C
Sturdy with the wordy Shakespeare


[Verse 2]
 C
“Quality of mercy is not strained”
Dm             G
“Such stuff as dreams are made”
 Dm
“Off with his head”
   G              C
My phrases you’ll note
 C
“This is the short and long of it”
 Dm             G
“Brevity is the soul of wit”
    Dm
“As good luck would have have it”
G       E    A
You can quote
       D                    G
Oh you suffered “Green-eyed jealousy”
E7                      A7
Please do not “Stand on ceremony”
  D
I wrote “The Queen’s English”
G*                C
Queen’s English I wrote


[Chorus 2]
 C    B     Bb A7
“It’s Greek to me” (That’s a Shakespeare line)
 A                 D                           D7
“Meat and drink to me” (He was the first to combine)
             G
“Infinite variety”
                      C  E7  A7
Yeah, that was one of mine
D7*
Don’t call me flakey
    G*
I’m William Shakey
    G#*           G7*                B  C
Not lazy with the phrasey Shakespeare


[Bridge]
F                   Fm
I was the greatest, I was ace
   C             E7                A7
To find a better writer, that’s “A wild goose chase”
D7
I was truly brilliant which is why I sing
    F     F     F   F    G# G# G#   G#
You can’t have “too much of a  good thing”
N.C.
“If music be the food of love, play on”


[Chorus 3]
 C  B   Bb A7
“Et tu, Brute” (Did you ever know?)
 A             D                        D7
“Forever and a day” (From a Shakespeare show)
                       G
“Good riddance”, “Fair play”
                    C  E7  A7
“Pure as the driven snow”
 D7*
“High time”, “Lie low”
 G*
“Wherefore art thou Romeo”
    G#*                G7*             B  C
The nation’s favourite bard Shakespeare


[Outro]
D7*
Dooby, dooby, dooby
 G
“To be or not to be”
G#*             G7*              B  C
Schooby, dooby, dooby Shakespeare