# Songs about reading? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255 "2013-04-20T20:44:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/1 "2013-04-20T20:44:04Z")
Do you know any? Preferably not children’s songs but that would be OK, but I’d like a song about the joy of reading a good book. ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/2 "2013-04-20T20:50:57Z")
T.Rex - Spaceball Ricochet Husker Du - Books About UFOs ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/3 "2013-04-21T00:25:11Z")
[Moxy Fruvous - My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MeQK7JtLpU) Which you probably never heard of. Canadian band that had a few songs on the radio here. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/4 "2013-04-21T00:28:38Z")
Butterfly in the skyyyyyy… ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/5 "2013-04-21T02:22:08Z")
“Wonderful World”: “I Am a Rock”: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PKY-smJ6aBQ/hqdefault.jpg "I Am a Rock - Simon & Garfunkel Lyrics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKY-smJ6aBQ) “Dangling Conversation”: Funny that the first three I thought of were Simon and Garfunkel songs… ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/6 "2013-04-21T02:29:55Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > [Moxy Fruvous - My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MeQK7JtLpU) > > Which you probably never heard of. Canadian band that had a few songs on the radio here. This is exactly the song that jumped into my mind. The list of authors she loves is freakishly Canadian, too. ---
**Author:** ![satogata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@satogata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/satogata)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/7 "2013-04-21T05:21:06Z")
One more vote for Moxy Fruvous – perhaps they’re not as obscure as we think they are, despite having broken up in 2001. Then again, if there is any demographic I know of that would overlap with Fruheads, it’s Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/8 "2013-04-21T05:34:35Z")
Lots of songs about specific books… “Starship Troopers” by Yes, “Sirens of Titan” by Al Stewart, “Return to Pooh Corner” by Kenny Loggins, “Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” by Leonard Nimoy… Okay, I’m coming up dry now. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/9 "2013-04-21T05:40:27Z")
Here’s a song that seems tailor made for this question - Ed Hall - [Reading](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXgOHDojYUg). ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/10 "2013-04-21T05:52:57Z")
Bitches in Bookshops (based on Kanye West and Jay Z’s N\*ggas in Paris) ---
**Author:** ![wombattver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b77776/32.png) [@wombattver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wombattver)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/11 "2013-04-21T05:55:02Z")
The Doodlebops - “take a look” inside a book. Obviously, it’s geared to kids but it’s catchy and enjoyable and my kids loved most of their songs. “Bird is the word” is a particular favorite. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wombattver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b77776/32.png) [@wombattver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wombattver)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/12 "2013-04-21T05:57:13Z")
“If you could read my mind”… “what a tale my thoughts would tell, just like a paperback novel” … maybe this doesn’t quite fit the criteria, but it popped into my head. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/13 "2013-04-21T06:15:31Z")
Van Morrison in _Cleaning Windows_ sings: I heard Leadbelly and Blind Lemon On the street where I was born Sonny Terry, Brownie Mcghee, Muddy Waters singin’ ‘I’m a rolling stone,’ I went home and read my [Christmas Humphreys](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Humphreys)book on Zen Curiosity killed the cat Kerouac’s [Dharma Bums](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_Bums) and [On The Road](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/14 "2013-04-21T17:54:22Z")
Paperback Writer by The Beatles (well, duh…) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/15 "2013-04-21T19:01:51Z")
“Virginia Woolf” by Indigo Girls: They published your diary And that’s how i got to know you The key to the room of your own and a mind without end And here’s a young girl On a kind of a telephone line through time And the voice at the other end comes like a long lost friend So i know i’m all right Life will come and life will go Still i feel it’s all right Cause i just got a letter to my soul And when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue Empty pages for the no longer young The apathy of time laughs in my face You say “each life has its place” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/16 "2013-04-21T21:45:46Z")
One I forgot was Fuck Me Ray Bradbury. I’m leaning towards My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors and Bitches in Bookshops. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/17 "2013-04-21T22:31:33Z")
[Julian Smith - I’m Reading a Book](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuRuwR2JSXI) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/18 "2013-04-23T17:36:56Z")
_Diary_ by Bread? ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/19 "2013-04-24T03:39:34Z")
[Rage of Thrones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CLCOvZOh1o) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/20 "2013-04-24T03:42:52Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > “Virginia Woolf” by Indigo Girls: I remembered this one on my way home from work and figured someone would have posted it by the time I got here. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255.md?page=2)