HAPPY NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK! Welcome to the Jungle... err Library.

This is just too good not to share. I can imagine mean karaoke versions of this classic Guns N' Roses song cropping up at summer reading celebrations and teen nights all over the place. Lyrics courtesy of my co-worker, as part of the on-going National Library Week celebration in my office.

“Welcome to the Library”
Lyrics adaptation by Samantha Wallace

Welcome to the library
We got books 'n' games
We got everything you want
Honey we know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the notion honey
We got your good read

Chorus:

In the library
Welcome to the library
Watch it bring you to your shun n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n knees, knees
I wanna watch you read

Welcome to the library
We take it page by page
If you want it you're gonna read
But it's the price you pay
And you're a very well read girl
That's very hard to please
You can see the fancy new books
and you can rent them for free
In the library
Welcome to the library
Of Dewey decimal you will learn
I, I wanna hear that page turn!

Welcome to the library
It gets better here everyday
Ya learn ta read like a professional
In the library where we say
“If you got a hunger for what you see
You'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
And you can rent it for free!”

Chorus

And when you're high you never
Ever want to come down, so down, so down, so down. YEAH!

You know where you are
You're in the library baby
You're gonna check out a book!
In the library
Welcome to the library
Watch it bring you to your shu n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n knees, knees
In the library
Welcome to the library
Or watch, watch, watch a dvd
In the library
Welcome to the library
Watch it bring you to your shun n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n, knees, knees
In the library
Welcome to the library
Watch it bring you to your
Research that baby down!