Down At The Rose - !!!NEW!!!

In my spare (ha ha) time, I volunteer for the Rose Theatre (or as it is now called the Rose Playhouse) in Southwark. It's absolutely amazing as it's the site and remains of the first ever Bankside theatre. In fact it's so amazing it deserves its own parody song.

Anything Goes Down at The Rose not by Cole Porter

London’s changed,

Yet in the banks of old Southwark

Dug in deep and we got a shock

Just wait and see what we’ve got in stock
If today,
You wanna know how they put on plays,
'Stead of watching TV and film,
Come to one of our Open Days.

In Tudor times a woman on stage
Was looked on as quite an outrage,
In the shows,
Down at the Rose.

Good playwrights here for want of better words,
Made up their own set of words
For new shows,

Down at the Rose.

That world has gone by today
We’ve moved on today,
And yet still today,
You will find today,
That some films today
That people love today
Are still full of Shakespeare’s prose
And though there’s not a lot to see here
I know that you’ll want to be here
Until we close,
Down at the Rose 

When Londoners wanted a good time
To one place they’d make a beeline, where’d you suppose?
Down to the Rose.  

When life and stress brought on the hardship
In search of companionship they'd head in droves,
Down to the Rose.  

If hearing ballads you like,
If the Bard you like,
If mad tales you like,
If bad tales you like,
If the best you like
In Tudor dress you like,
Why, you’ll love it at the Rose! 

And every night,

When they play is on
You can’t deny there’s a frisson – the magic shows,
Down at the Rose.

That world has gone by today
We’ve moved on today,
And yet still today,
You will find today,
That some films today
That people love today
Are still full of Shakespeare’s prose
And though there’s not a lot to see here
I know that you’ll want to be here
Until we close,
Down at the Rose

If seeing good plays you like,
If matinees you like        

If history you like,
If mystery you like,
If excellence you like
With ambience you like,
Why you’ll love it at the Rose!

And though there’s not a lot to see here
And though there’s not a lot to see here
I know that you’ll want to be here
Until we close,
Down at the Rose
Down at the Rose

(For more information about The Rose, visit http://www.rosetheatre.org.uk/)