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