The Day I Read A Book chords by
Jimmy Durante

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Key: Eb major•

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

Ddim

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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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Edim

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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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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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Bbdim

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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 history.

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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.

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ChordsG Bb F Eb C...

G
Bb
F
Eb
C
Fm
Ddim
Cm
D
Gm
Edim
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G
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