Yes, there are two parts to this drivel! Part 1 is HERE
So yesterday, whilst mucking about on Twitter (I do a lot of this, it’s educational), my friend Dee (not some random ‘person I know off the internet’ but a real life friend – yes, I do have them); responded to a tweet from me extolling the virtues of reading, with some re-written lyrics from ABBA’s Thank You For The Music. I’m sure that someone, somewhere, has already re-written them for books; but this is mine and Dee’s version, OK?
Dee is confident that this is possibly the first use of the word bibliography in a song. I’m not arguing with her, she has a tendency to be right. 
So, to the tune of ABBA’s Thank you for the Music, Dee and Rachel present… something that was probably best left on Twitter…
My life’s nothing special, in fact, it’s a bit of a bore.
When I tell a joke, you’ve probably heard it before.
But I have a past time, a wonderful deed
‘Cause everything changes when I start to read.
I’m so grateful and bowed, all I want is to read it out loud.
So I say thank you for the stories, the books I’m reading,
Thanks for all the chapter headings.
Who can live without it? I ask in all honesty, what would life be,
without an author or a bibliography?
So I say thank you for the stories, for giving them to me.
Mother said I was a reader before I could walk.
she said I began to think long before I could talk.
And I’ve often wondered, how did it all start,
who found out that nothing can capture a heart
like a storyline can.
Well whoever it was, I’m a fan!
So I say thank you for the stories, the books I’m reading,
Thanks for all the chapter headings.
Who can live without it? I ask in all honesty, what would life be
without an author or a bibliography?
So I say thank you for the stories, for giving them to me.
OK, so we have too much time on our hands!
We’ll leave by the drain….
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Hahahahaha, this is awesome!
Old Song, New Lyrics is one of my favourite pastimes. There are so many it would take me the rest of my days to relate them, and you’d have lost the will to live before I was halfway through anyhow. I’ll narrow it down: “Bootsie the Red-Nosed Pusscat” (written for a gone-but-not-forgotten moggy on a cold winter’s day); “Thank You For The Aga” (the theme tune of our three cats, to be sung to the tune of the Abba song, obviously); and my finest hour, in association with Paul, a version of “Ernie” which we penned for our farmer neighbour – he drove the fastest tractor in the west! Yes, I have too much time on my hands as well, but at least it’s being spent creatively…
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I love this. Reading is for me a physical need as well. It is uncomfortable indeed to be stuck in a waiting room, on a plane, or on a bus without something to read to help me pass the time. I love the old song, new lyrics theme, too – I laughed my face off when I saw “I Like Big Books and I Cannot Lie,” but, obviously, “Thank you for the Stories” is much classier.
Thank goodness we didn’t settle on “Reading Queen”.