Appendix D
A Collection of Tuneful Lyrics to Raise the Voices (and Spirits) of Serial Librarians Everywhere
Lyrics by Marjorie Peregoy and Sharon Smith
American Libraries 7 (2), February 1976, p. 84: Permission of Sharon Smith.
Melody: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mine eyes have seen the folly of the coming CONSER plan
O tremble at the errors it will loose upon our land
But a voice cries out for sanity, O listen to this man
For his truths can set us free.
Glory, glory Paul Fasana
Glory, glory Paul Fasana
Glory, glory Paul Fasana
His truths can set us free.
Melody: I Love Paris
ISBD in the springtime
ISBD in the fall
ISBD in the summer, when it muddles
ISBD in the winter, it befuddles.
ISBD every journal
Every day of every year
ISBD, why do I dread ISBD?
It fills my heart with fear.
Melody: this tune will be immediately apparent to all lovers of the Marx Brothers and Animal Crackers, others will just have to fake it.
Hurrah for Sumner Spalding!
The catalog explorer
Like him there should be more-er
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Melody: Edelweiss
Serials, serials
Every morning you greet me,
Numbered strange, titles change,
Every day you defeat me.
Prices once low, now you rise and grow,
Rise and grow, forever.
Serials, serials,
Would I escape you, O never.
Melody: Sixteen Tons
Lyrics: Hal Hall , first verse; Sharon Smith and Marjorie Peregoy, second verse.
You change sixteen titles, and what do you get?
Another one changes and you ain’t done yet.
St. Peter don’t you call me
‘Cause I can’t go,
My backlog’s stacked all over the flo’.
I came in one morning and the sun didn’t shine,
Changed eight titles, reached for number nine,
Look our for OECD,
Don’t give them an inch,
Or they’ll change their titles in English and French!
This library libretto was composed to lighten up a serials workshop held at Texas A & M University in 1975. Songs could be sung to tunes indicated; included melodies by Cole Porter, Richard Rogers, Traditional, Anonymous, and Others.
Mr. Fasana was the workshop’s featured speaker so he was immortalized in song.
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