| (To the Tune of "I am the Very Model of the Modern Major General") |
We are the very model
of the local book emporium
We've lots of little
buildings and a barn that has three storyum
More books than you'd
be finding in a middle-age scriptorium
We even have a catalogue
that shows the different flooruim |
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We'll be lining books
on shelves in order alphabeticial
Some sacred, some
are secular, and others quite heretical
So many books that
people coming in feel nearly overwhelmed
The prices are so
low that only rarely are we undersellmed |
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The main floor of the
Barn has all the books on subjects nautical
The Lusitania, Tristan
Jones and other things aquatical
The very room is where
you'll find the books on war all showing up
On ammunition, battles,
and whatever's always blowing up |
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The upper floor has
antique dolls and Jungian psychology
The books haute cuisine
and how to boil a hot dog-ology
Mary Sarton and some
Nancy Drew and title inspirational
And books on death
and dying if you're feeling expirational |
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The cellar's Asia,
Europe, and United States historical
The books on how to
paste and nail and drilling with a borical
The books on herbal
gardens and theology Jesuitical
The physics books
with model universe paradigmitical |
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The Annex has the fiction,
romance, sets and the anthologies
Some out of reach
and some you'll only find if you get on your knees
And poetry from Whitman's
Leaves to Coleridge's Xanadu
and Novels from the
classics up to Shipping News by Annie Proulx |
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The building called
the Haunted's got the gambling and juridical
The Sherlock Holmes
and hardback books of murders quite luridical
The fantasies all
filled with beasts alarming and nefarial
All guarded by a kitty
dressed in black we call Miss Ariel |
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The Last Page has the
children's books right next to liter-arry crit
And books to teach
you magic tricks to give your friends a scary fit
Art Buchwald right
by Lindbergh, you will find them both just sitting there
Investments next to
railroads, which I always thought a fitting pair |
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The Underworld we've
only had the time to fix subjectical
The genre books are
not yet in their order alphabetical
We try to keep it
up and not to let it be a dumping ground
But confusion's such
sometimes you hear the clients make a grumping sound |
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There's more but I
will stop before the song becomes a borium
It's rather rude to
sing a song that's writ to your own glorium
But short in all the
matters that are bookish and biblorium
The Book Barn is the
model of the local book emporium |
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