Lori Johnson

TEACHERS: Mr. Nicky is still scheduling his spring 2023 online assemblies & virtual classroom songwriting workshops! These online programs (via Zoom/Google Meet/etc.) meet state learning standards in both social studies and ELA, and they’re tons of fun. Please send an e-mail to [email protected] for full information. (Students will not receive a response, but thank you for your support!)

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The Renaissance Song by Mr. Nicky

To the tune of “Feel it Still” by Portugal. The Man

Backing track property of Karaoke Version / Tency Music.

With Florence Italy’s wealth in Medici banks

from the woolen cloth making guilds

and the trade of luxury goods from the East

I’ve got patrons for my sculptures

Ooo, the magnificent Lorenzo

got me working, now I paint the Pope his frescoes

Use perspective, whoa, looks 3 dimensional

Ooo, though I sculpt religious themes, I’ll

imitate the classical Roman and Greek Styles

Yeah this rebirth is led by humanists

finding ancient manuscripts

Gaining classic knowledge from the

Greeks running from Ottomans ‘cause

it’s time for thought and reasoning

and inquiring like Da Vinci

Leo knew painting, math, cartography, science

sculpture, music, engineering, Mona Lisa

Check his notebooks, that’s a Renaissance Man

Ooo, this rebirth is going to spread north, with the

printing press good books are getting read more

Put the literature in the vernacular

Your king is going to love The Prince

Ooo, let’s examine politics now

If you’re Machiavellian you

might be mocked by Erasmus

Thomas More’s ideal guest

Felt like Shakespeare at Elizabeth’s

Ooo, his characters are so complex now

Go study in Italy and bring your style

to Germany, oh, your art is so realistic

Oil on canvas, books in Spanish

Greeks in Venice, early feminists

New art methods , It’s the Renaissance

Ooo, if I’d read Copernicus, I could paint

the solar system, the sun would be switched

New discoveries change the way we see

Ooo, the magnificent Lorenzo

got me working now I paint the Pope his frescoes

Use perspective, whoa, looks 3 dimensional

Ooo, though I sculpt religious themes I’ll

imitate the classical Roman and Greek Styles

Yeah this rebirth is led by humanists

Oh, and Florence’s pizza is delicious