{"id":442,"date":"2013-04-11T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T23:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/13-Burn-Her1.mp3"},"modified":"2013-04-11T16:36:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T23:36:51","slug":"13-burn-her-2","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/unfinished-business-3\/13-burn-her-2\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Burn Her"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-442","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-442-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/13-Burn-Her1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/13-Burn-Her1.mp3\">https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/13-Burn-Her1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Sometimes even nicely done things can bite the dust. For instance this song, which I always loved and was originally in Act One of Spamalot in Chicago.    It was a song for Sir Bedevere and followed the witch scene from The Holy Grail.  \u201cWe have found a witch, may we burn her!\u201d<br \/>\nThe problem was that having taken the trouble to reduce the play to consistent characters who run all the way through, the audience were suddenly faced with Hank Azaria and David Hyde Pierce on stage as not Lancelot and not Robin.  In other words it became revue.  <\/p>\n<p>Sara Ramirez was fun as the witch, and at the end while she was being burnt, she flew off to safety, since she was a witch! But at this point the play simply lost all semblance of having a real plot and Mike Nichols felt strongly that it should go, and I agreed with him, and when we cut it the story was much easier to follow.   Nice song though!   (I\u2019ve updated it a little.)<\/p>\n<p>Burn Her!<\/p>\n<p>BEDEVERE<br \/>\nWhen I was just a young chap in me nappy<br \/>\nMe pappy said \u201cSon life can be quite cruel.<br \/>\nIf you do not want to be unhappy<br \/>\nNever marry witches that\u2019s a golden rule.<br \/>\nThere is only one way to survive \u2018em<br \/>\nThey will always play you for a fool<br \/>\nIf you find a witch then you must take the silly bitch<br \/>\nAnd string her up<br \/>\nAnd turn her into fuel. <\/p>\n<p>Burn her!<br \/>\nBurn her!<br \/>\nPut her on the barbecue and turn her,<br \/>\nScratch that itch before that bitch can spurn yer<br \/>\nGrill her that won\u2019t thrill her but it certainly will learn her,<br \/>\nIf you burn her<br \/>\nBurn her<br \/>\nBurn her till she\u2019s cooked all the way through.<br \/>\nString her up and try her<br \/>\nAnd then fling her on the pyre<br \/>\nAnd then light the fire and toodle-oo!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WITCH<br \/>\nBurn me<br \/>\nSpurn me<br \/>\nI have learned that men are all the same.<br \/>\nOne minute they are hot<br \/>\nFor everything you\u2019ve got<br \/>\nThen they try and fry you<br \/>\nAnd they\u2019ll even crucify you<br \/>\nBeat me<br \/>\nEat me<br \/>\nI don\u2019t care what nasty things you do<br \/>\nIt is godforsaken<br \/>\nTurning me into fried bacon<br \/>\nAu revoir, goodbye cia ciao adieu.<\/p>\n<p>BEDEVERE<br \/>\nBurn her<br \/>\nBurn her<br \/>\nShe is on the menu for today.<br \/>\nJust like Joan of Arc<br \/>\nWe\u2019re gonna light the spark<br \/>\nFricassee her then let\u2019s see her<br \/>\nMaybe we\u2019ll rotisserie her<br \/>\nOil her, boil her,<br \/>\nBroil her till she\u2019s done all the way through.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll burn her and we\u2019ll baste her<br \/>\nAnd perhaps we\u2019ll even taste her<br \/>\nWhen we\u2019ve turned her into good witch stew!<\/p>\n<p>She may be a good looker<br \/>\nBut you still have gotta cook her<br \/>\nFor a hooker ain\u2019t no good for you.<\/p>\n<p>c) Eric Idle &#038; John Du Prez.  Rutsongs &#038; Ocean Music.<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/13-Burn-Her1.mp3 Sometimes even nicely done things can bite the dust. For instance this song, which I always loved and was originally in Act One of Spamalot in Chicago. It was a song for Sir Bedevere and followed the witch scene from The Holy Grail. \u201cWe have found a witch, may we burn her!\u201d The problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"file","mime_type":"audio\/mpeg","media_details":{},"post":440,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/13-Burn-Her1.mp3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"post","id":440,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}