Shakespeare Caroling (2019 Edition)

To celebrate this holiday season and the start of 2020 (a new decade!), here are made some fun, lighthearted, original Shakespeare parodies of famous carols. Please enjoy and sing them loud and proud throughout the streets! Happy holidays!

Jingle Bells (James Pierpont)

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way

Oh what fun it is to read a five-act Shakespeare play

Once upon a time

The Bard picked up his pen

And with couplets that rhyme

Wrote one-fifty-nine poems

Five of them are long

The rest have fourteen lines

What fun it is to read them and look words up every time

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way

Oh what fun it is to read a five-act Shakespeare play

Then sometime after that

He started to write plays

He worked and worked at

Thirty-seven that are praised

As genius works of art 

With love, revenge, and drink

They know to hit right to the heart and really make you think

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way

Oh what fun it is to read a five-act Shakespeare play

The Wassail Song

Here we come a-caroling

On behalf of the bard

Here we come a-chanting

In iambs through the yard

Love and passion come to you

But hopefully not death too

Or you’ll end up like poor Romeo

And Juliet

Or you’ll end up like poor sad Juliet

We are not bardolaters

With excess compliments

But neither we are haters

Who hold a false pretense

Love and passion come to you

But hopefully not death too

Or you’ll end up like poor Romeo

And Juliet

Or you’ll end up like poor sad Juliet