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"The Play's the Thing" is a song from "Honey Glazed Hamlet", an episode of The Book of Pooh. Pooh and his friends help Owl cure him of his nostalgia of William Shakespeare. It's mostly in A minor.
Lyrics[]
POOH: Welcome wondrous to our wood for sooth we're putting on a play.
TIGGER: If thou thinks we're talking funny, please don't turn and walk away.
KESSIE: There was this guy named William Shakespeare, who wrote the way that now we sing!
PIGLET: Watch as we strut and fret a while.
POOH: Soon you will see
ALL: The play is the thing! (How true, how true)
RABBIT: Friends, owls and countrymen, lend me your ears!
TIGGER: Why? Don't you have enough of your own, my fluffy buddy?
OWL: Lovely, lovely!
POOH: "Wonderful plays" wrote William Shakespeare
PIGLET: Fit for a Piglet or a king.
TIGGER: So if ya think ya got what it takes peare
KESSIE: Try it thy self
ALL: The play is the thing! (Just remember to speakerize trippingistically on the tongue.)
Pooh: Alas, poor honey jar, I knew thee well. Piglet? Piglet? Wherefore art thou, Piglet?
Piglet: Over here, Pooh!
Pooh: Could you pull this jar off my head? Thank you, Piglet.
Eeyore: Am I not wise as I am beautiful?
Owl: You remind me of Shakespeare's Bottom.
Eeyore: Gee thanks.
Owl: No thank you. (Singing) Ah my friends, how well and good. You brought such joy here to our wood. And as at Oxford, we loved to sing with a hey nonny nonny.
Tigger: And a ring a ding ding
Rabbit: That there's work and there's play,
Owl: But as Will used to say,
All: Hip hip hooray the play's the thing.
Piglet: Good gentles, remember
All: The play, the play, the play's the thing!!!