Much Ado About Mumford

Okay, so I am a fan of Mumford and Sons. If you know them, you know the song Sigh No More.

Here's the lyrics:

Serve God love me and mend
This is not the end
Lived unbruised we are friends
And I'm sorry
I'm sorry
Sigh no more, no more
One foot in sea, one on shore
My heart was never pure
And you know me
And you know me

And man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you,
It will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be.
There is a design,
An alignment to cry,
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be

Okay. So I was watching a 1993 Shakespeare movie called Much Ado About Nothing. Check it out. About halfway through the movie and at the end of the movie they sing a song that is a love poem by Shakespeare called "Sigh No More, Ladies". Here's the lyrics for that:

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh nor more;
    Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea and one on shore,
    To one thing constant never;
        Then sigh not so,
        But let them go,
    And be you blithe and bonny;
Converting all your sounds of woe
    Into. Hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no mo,
    Or dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
    Since summer first was leavy.
        Then sigh not so,
        But let them go,
    And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
    Into. Hey, nonny, nonny.

I'm sure you can figure out the connection yourself. I'd also like to point out a quote from the book and the end of the movie...

"In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion."


My conclusion: Mumford is a Shakespeare fan.