Hair Soundtrack - What a Piece of Work is Man

[emotrainer4444]

this song cracks me up, I'm turning this into a new rick roll because it's not meant to be taken seriously

[emotrainer4444]

@emotrainer4444 I stand corrected....

[samfdigital]

these lyrics are terrible, who wrote this shit?

[mmmhhm]

@samfdigital Shakespeare. They're from Hamlet, act 2 scene 2.

[gbvboundy1]

@samfdigital and even without the Shakespeare context, surley anyone can see how these words coment on the nature of mankind.

[samfdigital]

@gbvboundy1 nah they're shit

[Rosalie1942]

I really like the song. It is an interesting song for Broadway

[Rosalie1942]

I think that this is a great song.

[ScentedNectar]

Nice! Takes me right back to 1969 or 70 when I got the album for the broadway play version of Hair. Years before the movie. Thanks for the nostalgia. :)

[antigone414]

@ScentedNectar You're welcome! I wasn't born til 77, I never saw the play, movie, etc... I had once seen a very short clip of it on the show "head of the class", and years later I came across a copy of the soundtrack on tape, must have been about 12 or 13, and fell in love with the soundtrack. I picked up a copy of the play and read it, and read about it, and to this day still have a copy of that soundtrack in my car, love to take long rides and sing along at the top of my voice! :)

[ArutPerumJoyti]

Love it!

[bumby15]

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[Shanniquitie]

shakespeare, you make me wet

[bumby15]

Thanks dude! I needed this for english class!

[stormridergreyeagle]

this is an excellent made video; thank you

[HOLLWIZZLE]

his friends didn't come to cheer him up they came to spy on him for his parents

[a1artorious]

This doesn't suck at all ... good stuff ...

[antigone414]

Thank you kindly  ;)

[Xantippetje]

This is also one of my favourite pieces of the musical but never knew the lyrics were written by Shakespeare!

And now I know I never sang the right lyrics, being dutch and 16/17 at the time, I never heard of 'infinite', 'paragon' , 'I have of late', 'mirth', 'promontory' and so on and so on. Don't know anymore whát I sang, but certainly not those words! :-)

[bearywine]

Shakespeare put to music!

[DubhHer0]

The words are great b/c they are from Shakespeare's Hamlet - he says them to his friends from school who come to cheer him up in Elsinore.

thanks - this is my fave song too!

[antigone414]

I didn't realize that. Thanks for the info, and for taking the time to comment! :)

[phillydog17]

Magnifico!