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 **** 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 **** 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 **** an’ Jane

Chorus 1:

I’ll read standin’ up...