Welcome to the Renaissance

War of the roses, Chaucer's tales
 The brutal feudal system
 Holy crusades, Bubonic plague
 Can't say that we've really missed 'em
 So dark and barbaric, so dull and mundane
 That was so Middle Ages
 That was so... Charlemagne
 Welcome to the Renaissance
 With poets, painters, and bon vivants
 And merry minstrels
 Who stroll the streets of London
 A strummin' the lutes
 In puffy pants and pointy leather boots!
 Welcome to the Renaissance
 Where we ooh and aah you with ambiance
 We're so progressive
 The latest and the greatest
 We bring it to you with much ado
 Welcome to the Renaissance
 Where everything is new
 Here we've made advances in the sciences
 We have the latest gadgets and appliances
 Our mugs are made of pewter
 Our houses all are Tudor
 Decorated with a modern flair
 See us in our petticoats and farthingales
 Our trendy beards we trim to look like swallow tails
 We're called Elizabethans
 They're all a bunch of heathens
 Heathens heading straight for you know where
 While witches are burning and
 Wars tend to start
 We bring you moments of culture
 And art
 Culture and art...
 Welcome to the Renaissance
 Well our printing press has the fancy fonts
 That's right we're fancy
 And very literary, theatrical, too
 It's what we do
 Welcome to the Renaissance
 Where everything is new!
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 Hey look it's Francis Bacon with a chicken
 What's he makin'?
 Well, I think he's found a way of freezing meat
 That's new!
 Hey look it's Walter Raleigh
 Found a new world by golly
 And he's brought us all tobacco
 What a treat!
 Also new!
 And we have a list of writers who
 Are always writing something new
 It's true! We do!
 Like who?
 Like who? Like Dekker!
 Whoo!
 John Webster!
 Whoo!
 Ben Johnson!
 Uh-huh
 And Christopher Marlowe
 Thomas Kyd, Thomas Middleton,
 Thomas Moore
 And our brightest star
 Yo, he's the bomb, the soul of the age
 The whiz of the Elizabethan stage
 He's incredible, unforgettable
 He's just so freakin' awesome
 Shakespeare! Shakespeare!
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 We love him, we love him
 We love him, we love him
 We love him, we love him
 We love him, we love him
 His plays are so brilliant
 His writing's first rate
 His acting's incredible
 Isn't he great! (we love him, we love him)
 Isn't he great (we love him, we love him, we love him, we love him)
 We love him!
 Welcome to the Renaissance
 Not the one in Italy or in France
 No the one in England
 The one where William Shakespeare
 Is the cream of the crop
 The one where William Shakespeare is the top!
 Welcome to the Renaissance
 To a 16th century experience
 In the age that's golden
 The olden days are over, we bid them adieu
 Well hal-le-lu!
 Welcome to the Renaissance
 Where everything is new!
 Everything is new
 Welcome to the Renaissance
 Everything is new
 'Cause Renaissance means rebirth!