Turning Pages

Some folks just love to watch TV

All those commercials sure do annoy me

I love a good book, an’ if I choose

I’ll read it all in one go –

If I couldn’t read, I wouldn’t know half o’ what I know

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I’ll read standin’ up, sittin’ down, in the tub, on the plane

I’ve been turnin’ pages since I first met Dick an’ Jane

Some guys just love a game o’ poker

Me, I don’t know the difference

Between a jack an’ a joker –

But when ya read a book by Mosley

Man, you can’t lose –

Yes, I’m talkin’ ‘bout Walte, wrote RL’s Blues

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I read it standin’ up, sittin’ down, in the tub on the train

I been turnin’ pages since I first met Dick an’ Jane

Some folks crazy ‘bout some Shakespeare

Some folks wild about their Langston Hughes

Some folks just love to read the Bible

An’ shout out the news –

As a child I loved my Hard Boys

An’my Nancy Drews

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I’d read standin’ up, sittin’ down

Kids used to call me “Da Brain”

I been turnin’ pages since I first met Dick an’ Jane

Chorus 1:

I’ll read standin’ up...