The Story of Reomeo and Juliet set the the melody of 'House of the Rising Sun'

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We were playing Amazing grace to this melody, and I had the though that there's just not enough filk to this tune. So I wrote some verses... The opening verse are the actual first four lines of the play, and the last verse uses the rhyming couplet from the last two lines.

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

That party crasher Romeo
did spy fair Juliet
and star-crossed lovers they became
He Montegue, she Capulet

They hatched a plan betwixt them both
that the next day they’d be wed
but Tybalt ruined the whole affair
now Mercutio and he are dead

So Romeo is banish-ed
And the old friar hatches a plan
Juliet feigns death to run away
With Romeo on the lam

But Romeo returns to find
his true love laid in state
So he drinks of a poison vial
And dies before Juliet wakes

And as our heroine doth stir
she finds her husband dead
taking his dagger, she stabs herself
Losing life as out she bled

A glooming peace this morning brings
For never was a story of more woe
Remember this star-crossed lover’s tale
of Juliet and her Romeo.