William Shakespeare’s sonnet, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? reimagined as a country ballad. I hope you enjoy it.
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? lyrics
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperateRough winds do shake the darling buds of MayAnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shinesAnd often is his gold complexion dimmedAnd every fair from fair sometime declinesBy chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed
But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shadeWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest
So long as men can breathe or eyes can seeSo long lives this, and this gives life to thee
So long as men can breathe or eyes can seeSo long lives this, and this gives life to thee
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