Library Boy: lyrics & streaming audio

 LIBRARY BOY

Words & music by Debbie Ridpath Ohi / Short URL for sharing: http://bit.ly/LibraryBoy

Here's a quickie home recording with Jodi Krangle on vocals and me on MIDI guitar (if you like Jodi's vocals, do check out her Voiceoversandvocals.com site!). This was a surprise birthday gift from Urban Tapestry to our librarian friend, Rand Bellavia, in April 2002. We don't tend to perform this in public anymore because it's a tad outdated. Someday I'll have to update the lyrics to keep up with modern library technology. :-)

C                                                F    G

I am a civilized girl, I comb my hair, I love family

C

but I confess my very favourite refuge is my local

F        G

library.

F                            G

The musty bookshelves are so picturesque

F                           G               C     C

But most of all I like the guy behind the desk.

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CHORUS:

F        C

Hey, Mr. Library Boy, please wontcha

F                                 C

show me a little Heinlein or some Leo Tolstoy

F                          C

You don't know I exist but you have my heart

G

Wontcha stamp my card?

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C  C

C                                                     F   G

The way you put away books, the way you always articulate

C                                

The way you gimme a look when I talk too loud, it makes my poor heart 

F       G

palpitate

F                          G

When I go home, the world loses its zest

F                                 G               C    C                    

Can't wait 'til I get back to the guy behind the desk.

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CHORUS

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C                                                       F  G

I've got a tendency to keep books 'til they're way overdue

C          

I get the notices but it's been six years, where's my special

F           G

visit from you?  

F                            G

   You smile at me and I can't help but obsess

F                           G               C   C

how I'd like to catalog the guy behind the desk.

        

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CHORUS

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        BRIDGE/END:

                C                       F                       C   C

        Oh Mr. Library Boy, by now you surely know I'm not a newcomer

                  C                             F

        So baby, let's not be coy, I'd like to get your

                             C      C

              Dewey Decimal Number

  F                            G

I try but nothing I do will make me forget

F                            G               C -------

My passion for that special guy behind the desk.

              

              (Jodi: Mr. Library Boy, lemme show ya some

                     bibliophile joy)