# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/21 "2013-04-24T03:53:29Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Paperback Writer by The Beatles (well, duh…) Although that’s more about writing (and trying to get published) than reading, per se. Would “Adult Books” by X qualify? ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/22 "2013-04-24T23:42:49Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Butterfly in the skyyyyyy… first thing that popped into my head, too. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/23 "2013-04-25T14:26:17Z")
Can’t remember which one but a Jimmy Buffett song from 20+ years ago had this: “When I finished that last line I put the book on a shelf with my heart in it…” Not exclusively about reading but I liked that sentiment. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/24 "2013-04-25T14:35:35Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > [Rage of Thrones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CLCOvZOh1o) Well, if we’re going there: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/j7lp3RhzfgI/maxresdefault.jpg "Write Like the Wind (George R. R. Martin)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7lp3RhzfgI) ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/25 "2013-04-25T14:40:05Z")
When I was a child and would be reading around the house and my father saw me, he would break into a song called, “I Read a Book” with a Jimmy Durante accent. I have since found out that Durante had a hit with the song. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/26 "2013-04-26T14:29:37Z")
Tim Minchin - “The Good Book” > [@](#): > > Life is like an ocean voyage, and our bodies are the ships, > And without a moral compass we would all be cast adrift. > So to keep us on our bearings, the Lord gave us a gift, > And like most gifts you get, it was a book! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/27 "2013-04-26T14:37:21Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > When I was a child and would be reading around the house and my father saw me, he would break into a song called, “I Read a Book” with a Jimmy Durante accent. I have since found out that Durante had a hit with the song. “I’ll never forget the day I read a book! It was contagious! Ran 70 pages…” Always have loved the Great Schnozzola. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/28 "2013-04-26T19:18:39Z")
The intro to _Do-Re-Mi_: “When you read you begin with A-B-C.” And _Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered_: “If they ask me, I could write a book” ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/29 "2013-04-27T21:12:00Z")
> [@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. Thank you. I haven’t heard that in years. 🙂 I love Jian Gomeshi. Have you read _ **1982** _? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255/30 "2013-04-29T00:14:52Z")
[Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)](http://youtu.be/e7iFqmUMBQQ?t=1m5s) by **Squeeze** mentions incidentally the idea of reading a Harold Robbins paperback at the beach. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-reading/656255.md?page=1)