Name: Two Households of the Rising Ire
Duration: 3 min 53 s
Channel: Traditional/Fugli
Description: The Story of Reomeo and Juliet set the the melody of 'House of the Rising Sun'

Two Households of the Rising Ire

Fugli

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The Story of Reomeo and Juliet set the the melody of 'House of the Rising Sun'

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Fugli

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I am a pseudo-medieval musician, scribe and artificer. With layered levels of simple instruments, my sounds are often uniquely archaic. While some of my music is entirely original, most of my numbers are my personal arrangements of renaissance and medieval melodies from antiquity. There's much more information to be found about me on my web site at

Song Info

Genre

Classical • Renaissance

Charts

Peak #98

Peak in subgenre #8

Author

Traditional/Fugli

Rights

Fugli

Uploaded

April 02, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 3:53

Story behind the song

We were playing Amazing grace to this melody, and I had the though that there's just not enough filk to this tune. So I wrote some verses... The opening verse are the actual first four lines of the play, and the last verse uses the rhyming couplet from the last two lines.

Lyrics

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

That party crasher Romeo 
did spy fair Juliet
and star-crossed lovers they became
He Montegue, she Capulet

They hatched a plan betwixt them both
that the next day they’d be wed
but Tybalt ruined the whole affair
now Mercutio and he are dead

So Romeo is banish-ed
And the old friar hatches a plan
Juliet feigns death to run away
With Romeo on the lam

But Romeo returns to find
his true love laid in state
So he drinks of a poison vial
And dies before Juliet wakes

And as our heroine doth stir
she finds her husband dead
taking his dagger, she stabs herself
Losing life as out she bled

A glooming peace this morning brings
For never was a story of more woe
Remember this star-crossed lover’s tale
of Juliet and her Romeo.

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