[CALIBK12] A protest song

[debbie at abilock.net]

The words to a protest song about library closings in England, to the tune
of Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi

Per Alan Gibbons's blog http://alangibbons.net/?p=84 

 

Music here (probably not for long)

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/gBeJSGztrnuOX8S6A1hTDEO5RddeaRMIKqickIs3wFg8Bun
Vns6ecPCCNBgOFqr0Mtx_F4AirSM-TmHRh-6xhpmD7aV8cw/03%20byt3.mp3 

 

Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/66ctj2 

They closed our library
And opened a pc block
With a white board, a scanner
And a wifi spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till its gone
They closed our library
And opened a pc block

They took all the books
Put em in a book museum
And they opened the doors
but no-one wants to see em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till its gone
They closed our library
And opened a pc block

Hey teacher teacher
Put away that wikipedia
Give kids chance to think
and leave us the books please
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till its gone
They closed our library
And opened a pc block

Late last week
I heard the school door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away the librarian
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till its gone
They closed our library
And opened a pc block

best,

debbie

 

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future.  The
learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer
exists." --Eric Hoffer

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