Welcome to the renaissance
[00:08.39] War of the Roses, Chaucer's tales
[00:12.88] The brutal feudal system
[00:17.15] Holy Crusades, Bubonic Plague
[00:21.89] Can't say that we've really missed 'em
[00:26.12] So dark and barbaric, so dull and mundane
[00:30.40] That was so Middle Ages, that was so Charlemagne
[00:37.64] Welcome to the Renaissance
[00:41.40] With poets, painters, and bon vivants
[00:45.14] And merry minstrels who strolled the streets of London
[00:49.14] Strummin' their lutes (in puffy pants and pointy leather boots)
[00:53.14] Welcome to the Renaissance
[00:56.15] Where we ooh and ahh you with ambiance
[00:59.64] We're so progressive (the latest and the greatest)
[01:01.91] (We bring it to you) with much ado
[01:07.39] (Welcome to the Renaissance)
[01:10.89] Where everything is new
[01:14.89] Here we've made advances in the sciences
[01:18.14] We have the latest gadgets and appliances
[01:21.65] Our mugs are made of pewter, our houses all are Tudor
[01:25.38] (Decorated with a modern flair)
[01:28.91] See us in our petticoats and farthingales
[01:32.90] Our trendy beards we trim to look like swallowtails
[01:36.37] We're called Elizabethans, they're all a bunch of heathens
[01:39.88] Heathens headed straight for you-know-where
[01:43.14] While witches are burning and wars tend to start
[01:46.64] We bring you moments of culture and art
[01:51.88] (Culture and art)
[01:55.90] Welcome to the Renaissance
[01:58.64] Where our printing press has the fancy fonts
[02:02.13] That's right, we're fancy and very literary
[02:06.13] Theatrical too, it's what we do
[02:09.64] Welcome to the Renaissance
[02:13.13] Where everything is new
[02:22.63] Hey, look, it's Francis Bacon with a chicken, what's he making?
[02:25.64] Well, I think he's found a way of freezing meat, that's new
[02:28.89] Hey, look, it's Walter Raleigh, found a new world, by golly
[02:31.89] And he's brought us all tobacco, what a treat, also new
[02:35.42] (And we have a list of writers who are always writing something new)
[02:39.65] It's true! We do! Like who? (Like who?)
[02:43.64] (Like Dekker!) Whoo! (John Webster!) Whoo!
[02:46.89] (Ben Jonson!) Uh-huh! And Christopher Marlowe!
[02:50.38] Thomas Kyd, Thomas Middleton
[02:52.88] Thomas More (and our brightest star) Whoo!
[02:56.63] He's the bomb, the soul of the age
[03:00.13] The wiz of the Elizabethan stage
[03:02.88] He's incredible
[03:05.64] Unforgettable
[03:08.39] He's just so freakin' awesome!
[03:13.12] Shakespeare!
[03:16.13] Shakespeare!
[03:27.38] We love him, we love him, we love him, we love him
[03:30.64] We love him, we love him, we love him, we love him
[03:33.63] His brains are so brilliant, his writing's first-rate
[03:37.16] His acting's incredible, isn't he great?
[03:40.63] We love him, we love him, (isn't he great?) we love him, we love him
[03:45.63] We love him, we love him, we love him
[03:48.90] Welcome to the Renaissance
[03:50.89] Not the one in Italy or in France
[03:54.63] No, the one in England, the one where William Shakespeare
[03:58.41] Is cream of the crop (the one where William Shakespeare is the top)
[04:03.16] Welcome to the Renaissance (Renaissance)
[04:06.37] The 16th-century experience (Experience, yeah)
[04:10.14] In the age that's golden, the olden days are over
[04:13.63] We bid them adieu, well, Hallelu'
[04:17.62] Welcome to the Renaissance
[04:21.14] Where everything is new
[04:29.14] Everything is new
[04:32.38] Welcome to the Renaissance
[04:35.63] Everything is new
[04:38.13] (Cause "Renaissance" means rebirth)
