Dunsinane Blues (After Macbeth)

"Macbeth," said an apparition

"Shall never vanquished be

Until," said the apparition

"Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane Hill

Shall come against him." Mac said, "That will

Never be, that'll never be

I will not be afraid of death or bane

Till Birnam Forest comes to Dunsinane"

Macduff marching with his army

Came toward Birnam Wood

Macbeth waited in his castle

And Malcolm said, "Let every soldier hew him

Down a bough and bear it before him"

Macbeth that day was heard to say

"I will not be afraid of death or bane

Till Birnam Forest comes to Dunsinane"

Macbeth listened to a servant

"I looked toward Birnam and

Anon," said the wretched servant

"Methought the wood began to move

May you see it comin', I say a moving grove"

Then quoth the Scot, "The spirit said, 'Fear not

Till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane'

And now a wood comes towards Dunsinane"

"Macbeth," said another apparition

"Macbeth, beware Macduff

Beware," said another apparition

"Be bloody, bold and resolute and laugh to scorn

The power of man, for none of woman born

Can harm Macbeth." Did this disarm Macbeth?

He said, "Swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn

Brandished by a man that's of a woman born"

Macbeth fighting in a battle

Sighted Macduff who said

"Despair," then, to put it my way

"Now's the time for you to be a wary 'un

I really wasn't born, it was a Caesarian"

Macbeth is said to have lost his head

But he never was afraid of death or bane

Till Birnam Forest came to Dunsinane

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