The Songs

Fifteen of the songs on Shakespeare's Palpable Hits come from plays by Shakespeare; of these, eleven are set to music written by Dog Legs & Feet:

• Who Is Silvia? [ listen | download ]
• Come Away, Death [ listen | download ]
• Come Unto These Yellow Sands [ listen | download ]
• A Lover and His Lass [ listen | download ]
• O Mistress Mine [ listen | download ]
• Will You Buy Any Tape? [ listen | download ]
• Take O Take Those Lips Away [ listen | download ]
• Master & Swabber [ listen | download ]
• Fie on Sinful Fantasy [ listen | download ]
• Fear No More [ listen | download ]
• That Sir That Serves [ listen | download ]

The other four Shakespeare songs were written by friends of the band, who graciously gave us permission to use our arrangements of their music:

• The music for Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind [ listen | download ] was written by Peter Conover.
• Hark Hark the Lark [ listen | download ] was co-written Ben Wilcott and Dog Legs & Feet's Jon Watson.
• This version of Sigh No More, Ladies [ listen | download ] was written by Brett Youens and Madge Darlington for a 1920s-style production of "Much Ado About Nothing."
• Patrick Aziz and Madge Darlington came up with this version of Under the Greenwood Tree [ listen | download ] in 1995.

There are also four "non-Shakespeare" songs in the list:

• Sweet Sweet Viola [ listen | download ] celebrates the complicated plot of Twelfth Night.
• Cats & Dogs [ listen | download ] satirizes Cymbeline's wicked Queen, who plots to poison her own stepdaughter.
• A Sheep-Shearing Song (Now That the Spring) [ listen | download ] is a centuries-old traditional melody often used in productions of Shakespeare plays at Winedale.
• Irish Dement [ listen | download ] is a Dog Legs & Feet original that has become almost a staple of Winedale summers, appearing briefly in performances of Twelfth Night, Richard II, Henry IV Part 2, Much Ado About Nothing, and other plays.

Follow the links to learn more about each song, including lyrics, instrumentation, its context within the play and the history of the "Palpable Hits" version.