Just then, jes hands Bear the words to an appropriate Cornershop song:
Quote:She's dancing behind movie scenes
Behind those movie screens
She's the one that keeps the dream alive
From the morning past the evening
To the end of the line
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
I'm thinking
Illuminate the main street
We don't care about no government war
About the promotion of the simple life
And the dams they're building
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Mine's on the 45
Mohammed Ravi 45,
Solid state radio 45
Verbs and mono 45
And the ballroom boogie
The heavy hitters and the G.G. Grooves
They're all in the radio, 45
Two in ones, 45
Auto record, 45
Trojan Records 45
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Mine's on the 45
77,000 piece orchestra set
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Mine's on the rpm
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
"Okay, so the chorus was apropos," says Bear, "but what the heck is Asha and is it really Asher pronounced by a Bostonian and if that's the case, how the heck are the folks in Burundi or Burkina Faso or Birmingham for that matter gonna understand ya? Huh?"
"Uh, something's weighing down the carpet." cautions Gautam. "We'll need to toss the ballast."
Everyone looks at gus warily who says, "Ballast? Moi?"
jes tosses law books over the side. "I've always disliked that profession. Feels freeing to get rid of that junk."
"Uh, I think you just unloaded that junk on someone's head." says Ceili.
"Oh, no matter." says Dys, pulling Rae onto the carpet (Rae had been standing on the slow-moving space escalator, listening to cosmic elevator music).
"Are you nuts?" says Diane. "A book that heavy, from this kind of height? It could kill someone."
"Really, dear, don't cause a fuss. We were flying over Washington when the books were tossed. So, no one important was hit and, if they were, they've now got amnesia. That might not be such a bad thing." says Dys.
The women break into a new, more literary version of the old Weather Girls' hit (to the tune of "It's Raining Men"):
Quote:Hi (Hi!) We're your Librarians (Ah-huh)
And have we got news for you (You better listen!)
Get ready, all you literary girls
and leave those Cliff Notes at home. (all right!)
Literacy is rising (mm yeah) - Ignorance's getting low (how low-ho)
According to all sources, (what sources now)
the book store's the place to go (you better hurry up)
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past - look!
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining books.
It's Raining Books! Hallelujah! - It's Raining Books! Amen!
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!
It's Raining Books! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Books! Every Cranny and every nook!
Long, short and even abridged
high and lowbrow and naughty a smidge
God bless Mother Nature, she's a reading woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel to rearrange the lead
So that each and every woman could find her perfect read
It's Raining Books! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Books! Amen!
It's Raining Books! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Books! Ame - - nnnn!
I feel stormy weather Moving in about to begin
Hear the thunder Don't you lose your head
Rip off the roof and read in bed
Rip off the roof and read in bed
oh
God bless Mother Nature, she's a reading woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel to rearrange the lead
So that each and every woman could find her perfect read
It's Raining Books! Yeah!
Literacy is rising
Literacy is rising
Ignorance's getting low
According to all sources,
According to all sources,
According to all sources,
the book shop's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just in that little nook
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining books.
It's Raining Books! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Books! Amen!
It's Raining Books! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Books! Amen!
It's Raining Books! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Books!
Hallelujah!
oh oh whoa whoa whoa whoa
Raining Books
read to me
it's Raining Books
paperback and e'en hardcover
right away
finish one and start another
come on
Hallelujah!
reading time
It's Raining Books
I got more
Raining Books
whoooooo
and I'm gonna see you
She taught every angel
running near
I'm gonna tell her
fall on me
Hallelujah!
drop the latest bestseller
It's Raining Books
Mother Nature
Exhausted, the singers settle down. Everyone peers over the side in time to see Congress finishing up a Busby Berkeley number before Gautam steers the carpet over the Atlantic.
Not fair <muttering>
" said Rae.
