You Spotted Snakes/Titania's Bower [SHAKESPEARE poems set to music]

You spotted Snakes [from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare]


Em Bm C G
You spotted snakes with double tongue,
F Em A
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
Em Bm C G
Newts and blindworms, do no wrong,
F Em A
Come not near our fairy Queen.

Dm A7
Philomele, with melody
Dm G
Sing in our sweet lullaby;
F C A7
Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:
Dm Gm
Never harm
Bb Dm
Nor spell nor charm,
F C Dm
Come our lovely lady nigh;
A7 Dm
So, good night, with lullaby.

Weaving spiders, come not here;
Hence, you long-legged spinners, hence!
Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.


Titania's Bower

D D/B Asus4 A
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Em D A
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
D D/B Asus4 A
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
Em G A
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
Bm Em
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Bm G A
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;
(A riff)
And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin,
Em/A Dm/A
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:
F#m D/B
And with the juice of this I’ll streak her eyes,
A E D
And make her full of hateful fantasies.

D/B: x2x23x
Em/A: x0545x

Dm/A: x0323x




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