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 BOOK WEEK SONG 2011

Our Book Week 2011 song is called 'A Book Is Like A Firework' with music by Katy Perry and Lyrics by Kerry Gittins. We hope that you will learn the words and the tune so that you can sing along with us on Book Parade Day! And d o you know who [|Melvil Dewey]  was and what the [|Dewey Decimal System]  is? Watch this video, follow the lyrics below, and you'll be able to 'Do The Dewey' in no time !

Do you ever feel like you're someone else Somewhere different transformed and far away Do you ever feel, feel so caught up in What will happen next One page can make you spin
 * = **'A Book Is Like A Firework' ** ||= <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__**The Dewey Rap by [|Scooterstories] **__ ||
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 * = <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Lyrics **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Verse **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Do you ever feel already so far in <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So caught up you just can't put it down <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Can't hear a thing <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cannot wait to find what happens in the end <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It's got its hooks in you. . . <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You just gotta keep <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Reading on to story's end <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Keep reading on to the last word that's penned <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A book is like a firework <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Imagination starts to burst <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Makes you go "Oh, oh, oh!" <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As you turn each page you kno-o-ow <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A book is like a firework <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Reading helps the colours burst <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Makes you go "Oh, oh, oh!" <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Each book's a window to a wo-o-orld <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Do you ever feel all alone and then <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You pick up a book it's like a long lost friend <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Do you ever feel feel so out of place <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You pick up a book and find you have a face
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Chorus **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Verse **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Do you ever feel that you can travel far <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Just pick up a book and know that <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You can reach the stars <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fantasy or fact, myth or legend and <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mystery, adventure, thriller. . . <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Do you ever feel that you can travel far <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Just pick up a book and know that you can reach the stars ||= **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Lyrics ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Chorus** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Hi! My name is Melvil Dewey. Nice to meet ya! How you doin'? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If ya need info you know where to go – go to your library! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Hi! My name is Melvil Dewey. Nice to meet ya! How you doin'? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If ya need info you know where to go – go to your library! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Verse** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Once upon a time in library land I was lookin' fo' information man. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Couldn't find it anywhere. Book scanners everywhere. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Books over here, books over there, books everywhere man I swear <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">So I said 'There needs to be organisation in the library. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Use numbers – 1, 2, 3 – and name that system after me!' <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Chorus** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Verse** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">My Dewey Decimal system classifies information son <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">My Dewey Decimal system organises information son <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">My Dewey Decimal system is so very easy to use <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">My Dewey Decimal system here is what you got to do <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Bridge** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Say zero zero zero (zero zero zero) Generalities (like Bibliographies) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Say 100 (100!) Philosophy, Psychology <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Say 200 (200!) Religion (like the Bible) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Say 300 (300!) Social Sciences (like Political Science) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Say 400 (400!) Languages (like Spanish) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Say 500 (500!) Natural Sciences (like Astronomy) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Say 600 (600!) Technology (like Engineering) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Say 700 (700!) Artistic stuff (like Photography) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Say 800 (800!) Literature (like French literature) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Say 900 (900!) Geography, History (oh!) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Chorus** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Verse** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">But Melvil, can you tell me where to find info on sharks please? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Yeh! I can. No problem. I type it into my computer and – KABLAM! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">597.3 – SHARKS <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">But Melvil, can you tell me where to find info on Italian recipes? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Yeh! I can. No problem. I type it into my computer and – KABLAM! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">641.8 – ITALIAN RECIPES <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">But Melvil, can you tell me where to find info the Titanic please? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Yeh! I can. No problem. I type it into my computer and – KABLAM! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">910 – TITANIC HISTORY <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Chorus** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Chorus **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Coda **