Hair Soundtrack - What a Piece of Work is Man

This is my very first attempt at making an actual video! Sorry if it sucks! :)

"What a piece of work is man" is my favorite song from the Hair musical soundtrack.

What a piece of work is man
How noble in reason
How infinite in faculties
In form and moving
How express and admirable
In action how like an angel
In apprehension how like a god
The beauty of the world
The paragon of animals

I have of late
But wherefore I know not
Lost all my mirth
This goodly frame
The earth
Seems to me a sterile promontory
This most excellent canopy
The air-- look you!
This brave o'erhanging firmament
This majestical roof
Fretted with golden fire
Why it appears no other thing to me
Than a foul and pestilent congregation
Of vapors

What a piece of work is man
How noble in reason

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[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! :)

[a1artorious]

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

[antigone414]

Thank you kindly ;)

[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! :)

[bumby15]

Thanks dude! I needed this for english class!

[emotrainer4444]

@emotrainer4444 I stand corrected....

[emotrainer4444]

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

[samfdigital]

@gbvboundy1 nah they're shit

[gbvboundy1]

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

[mmmhhm]

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

[samfdigital]

these lyrics are terrible, who wrote this shit?

[Rosalie1942]

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

[Rosalie1942]

I think that this is a great song.