A folky setting (with classical overtones) of one of Shakespeare's songs, from "Much Ado About Nothing".
Lyrics: William Shakespeare
Music, voice, ukulele: Elly Hadaway
Production: Somhairle Kelly
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I wrote this song, setting Shakespeare's words, for a play-reading of "Much Ado About Nothing", in January 2015. I was playing Balthasar, a musician attached to the court of Leonato. Fans of Kenneth Branagh's film of the play will remember Emma Thompson reading the lyrics as poetry to her family and friends right at the beginning!
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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey, nonny nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no mo
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leavy.
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