The Day I Read A Book
The Day I Read A Book

The Day I Read A Book easy guitar chords by Jimmy Durante

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  • Verse 1
    When 

    I look back 
    to life I 
    find

    Lots of 
    memor
    ies remain 

    Certain days 
    stay in my 
    mind 

    And keep 
    runnin' through my 

    brain 

    I remember 
    the day 
    that 

    Ed Lee swam 
    the channel 

    What 
    a splash! 

    re
    member 
    the Wall Street 
    crash 

    Oh, 
    when Winslow 
    first shouted, 
    Flash! 

    But 
    there's 
    one day 
    that I recall, 

    though 
    it was 
    years ago 

    All 
    my 
    life I 
    will remem
    ber it, 

    know 
    I'll 
    never forget 

    the 
    day I 
    read a 
    book 

    It 
    was conta
    gious, 
    sev
    enty 
    pages 

    There 
    were 
    pictures 
    here 
    and 
    there, 

    so it 
    wasn't 
    hard to 
    bear 

    The 
    day 
    read a 
    book 

    It's 
    shame I 
    don't re
    call 

    the 
    name of 
    the 
    book 

    It 
    wasn't 
    history, 

    know be
    cause it 
    had no 
    plot 

    It 
    wasn't 
    a mystery, 

    because 
    nobody 
    there 
    got 
    shot 

    The 
    day I 
    read a 
    book, 

    can't 
    remember 
    when 

    But 
    one of 
    these days I'm 

    gonna 
    do it 
    again 

    Ah, 
    literature, 

    there's 
    nothing like 
    sit
    ting home 

    nights 
    at 
    the fireplace 

    With 
    a pipe, 
    dog, 

    and a good 
    book at 
    your 
    feet 

    But 
    if you 
    walk 
    into my 
    house, 

    you'll 
    see loads 
    of books 

    And 
    believe me, 

    they're 
    not there 
    just for 
    appearance. 

    I press 
    an 
    awful lot 
    of butterflies. 

    My 
    literary 
    ap
    petite 
    is stupendous. 

    They 
    don't write 
    them 

    quick 
    enough 
    for me. 

    The 
    book of the month 

    didn't come 
    out fast 
    enough, 

    so 
    I read the 
    book of the week. 

    The 
    book of the week 

    didn't come 
    out fast 
    enough, 

    so I read 
    the book of 
    the day. 

    The book of the 
    hour. 

    The book 
    of the minute. 

    But that 
    was
    n't even 
    fast enough. 

    So far 
    this week, I've 
    read six books 


    that haven't been written 
    yet. 

    But I'm not 
    con
    fined to 

    home reading. 

    I once 
    spent two weeks in 
    a library. 

    would have been out of 
    there 
    sooner, 

    but I buried my 
    nose 
    in a book 

    and 
    forgot which book I 
    buried it in. 

    A dilemma. 

    Why, on the first 
    page of 
    this book 

    they printed 
    the author's name, 

    and right 
    underneath it was his 

    private 
    phone number. 

    Copy
    right 1939. 

    But I'm going 
    to send 

    it back. 

    I've been dialing 
    that 
    num

    ber for four 
    months, 

    and 
    nobody's 
    answered. 

    Nevertheless, 

    while perusing 
    through the library, 

    I found 
    the classic I 
    was looking for. 

    It was in 
    the Encyclopedia 
    Britannia. 

    It 
    was in Forever 
    Umbreago. 

    It was 
    a book that 
    was 

    3 ,857 
    pages 
    thick. 

    An
    d I'm glad 
    I took 
    it. 

    It fits perfectly 
    under 
    the short leg 

    of my pool 
    table. 

    It was in 
    his
    tory. 

    know be
    cause it 
    had no 
    plot, 

    it was in 
    mystery. 

    Because 
    nobody 
    there 
    got shot 

    the 
    day I 
    read a 
    book. 

    can't 
    remember 
    when, 

    But 
    one of 
    these days 
    I'm going 

    to do it 
    again. 

    Yes, 
    one of 
    these days 

    I'm going to 
    do it 
    again. 

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