Welcome to the Renaissance Original Broadway Cast of Something Rotten (Ft. Michael James Scott & Something Rotten! Ensemble)

[Intro: MINSTREL]
War of the Roses, Chaucer's tales
The brutal feudal system
Holy Crusades, Bubonic Plague
Can't say that we've really missed 'em
So dark and barbaric, so dull and mundane
That was so Middle Ages, that was so Charlemagne

[Pre-Chorus 1: MINSTREL (ENSEMBLE)]
Welcome to the Renaissance
With poets, painters, and bon vivants
And merry minstrels who strolled the streets of London
Strummin' their lutes (In puffy pants and pointy leather boots)

[Chorus 1: MINSTREL (ENSEMBLE)]
Welcome to the Renaissance
Where we ooh and ahh you with ambiance
We're so progressive (The latest and the greatest)
(We bring it to you) with much ado
(Welcome to the Renaissance)
Where everything is new

[Verse 1: ENSEMBLE (MINSTREL)]
Here we've made advances in the sciences
We have the latest gadgets and appliances
Our mugs are made of pewter, our houses all are Tudor
(Decorated with a modern flair)
See us in our petticoats and farthingales
Our trendy beards we trim to look like swallowtails
We're called Elizabethans, they're all a bunch of heathens
Heathens headed straight for you-know-where