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The Day I Read A Book chords by 
Jimmy Durante 
N/A•
Verse 1
F#
A
E
A
When
D
B
I look back to life I find
Em
Lots of memories remain
A
D
B
Certain days stay in my mind
C#dim
And keep runnin' through my
F#
brain
Bm
I remember the day that
F#
Ed Lee swam the channel
Bm
What a splash!
F#
C#
I remember the Wall Street crash
F#m
A
Oh, when Winslow first shouted, Flash!
Em
B
But there's one day that I recall,
Em
though it was years ago
F#m
C#
All my life I will remember it,
Em
A
D
I know I'll never forget
A
D
the day I read a book
Em
A
D
It was contagious, seventy pages
Em
A
There were pictures here and there,
D
B
so it wasn't hard to bear
Em
The day I read a book
A
D
Em
It's a shame I don't recall
A
D
the name of the book
F#
It wasn't a history,
Bm
B
I know because it had no plot
It wasn't a mystery,
E
A
because nobody there got shot
Em
A
The day I read a book,
D
B
I can't remember when
Em
But one of these days I'm
A
D
gonna do it again
A
Ah, literature,
D
B
there's nothing like sitting home
Em
E
nights at the fireplace
A
D
With a pipe, a dog,
A
and a good book at your feet
Em
But if you walk into my house,
D
you'll see loads of books
And believe me,
B
E
they're not there just for appearance.
Em
A
I press an awful lot of butterflies.
D
B
Em
My literary appetite is stupendous.
A
They don't write them
D
B
D#dim
quick enough for me.
Em
The book of the month
D
Em
didn't come out fast enough,
so I read the book of the week.
D
The book of the week
didn't come out fast enough,
so I read the book of the day.
A
The book of the hour.
The book of the minute.
But that wasn't even fast enough.
So far this week, I've read six books
that haven't been written yet.
F#
But I'm not confined to
home reading.
I once spent two weeks in a library.
B
F#
B
I would have been out of there sooner,
E
but I buried my nose in a book
and forgot which book I buried it in.
A dilemma.
A
B
Why, on the first page of this book
D
they printed the author's name,
and right underneath it was his
Em
private phone number.
A
D
B
Copyright 1939.
Em
But I'm going to send
A
it back.
D
I've been dialing that num
ber for four months,
E
and nobody's answered.
Nevertheless,
while perusing through the library,
I found the classic I was looking for.
It was in the Encyclopedia Britannia.
A
It was in Forever Umbreago.
It was a book that was
A
Adim
3 ,857 pages thick.
A
And I'm glad I took it.
It fits perfectly under the short leg
of my pool table.
F#
It was in a his tory.
B
I know because it had no plot,
E
it was in a mystery.
A
Because nobody there got shot
Em
A
the day I read a book.
D
B
I can't remember when,
Em
A
But one of these days I'm going
D
F#
to do it again.
B
Em
Yes, one of these days
A
D
G
D
I'm going to do it again.
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C#dim
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Adim
G
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