The Great Green Squishy Mean Bibliovore
from The Great Green Squishy Mean Concert CD by Monty Harper
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lyrics
In the ground they found a frozen dinosaur.
They kept it hidden in a secret lab.
The day had come the scientists were working for -
the day to wake this dino from his nap!
They threw the switches to their special laser beam.
They did not see the bookworm on the lens.
The dinosaur unraveled in a cloud of steam.
When it cleared there was a startled creature blinking at them.
He said, "Rrrr, I'm hungry!
Didja hear that sound? That's my tummy!
Don't give me no lines! Don't give me no looks!
Don't feed me no lip! Just feed me books!
'Cause I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.
I'm a cross between a bookworm and a dinosaur.
You'd better feed me books or you will hear me roar!
I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.”
They fed him all the reference books they never used,
but the monster still was hungry and escaped.
He broke into an empty elementary school
where he learned that spelling books cause belly aches.
He gobbled up a bookmobile and belched out the wheels.
He swallowed ten pay phone directories.
Then his nostrils started twitching like he smelled a meal.
That's when he burst in through the front door to the library!
He said, "Rrrr, I'm hungry!
Didja hear that sound? That's my tummy!
Don't give me no lines! Don't give me no looks!
Don't feed me no lip! Just feed me books!
'Cause I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.
I'm a cross between a bookworm and a dinosaur.
You'd better feed me books or you will hear me roar!
I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.”
He found himself a fiction shelf and started to feast.
The librarian was quite surprised indeed!
She grabbed him by the ear and made him take a seat.
She said, "I think I'd better teach you how to read."
The monster was a trifle smarter than he looked,
so it took her very little time to teach him.
And now he holds a whole new attitude toward books.
Every day he reads another pile - and then he eats them!
Today he makes a living writing book reviews.
He chews the bad ones up voraciously.
He loves to put the new words that he learns to use,
so now he's speaking more loquaciously.
He says, "Hmmm. I'm famished.
Did you feel that vibration?
That's my gastric cavity requesting bibliomastication!
'Cause I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.
I'm a cross between a bookworm and a dinosaur.
You'd better feed me books or you will hear me roar!
I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.
I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore!"
They kept it hidden in a secret lab.
The day had come the scientists were working for -
the day to wake this dino from his nap!
They threw the switches to their special laser beam.
They did not see the bookworm on the lens.
The dinosaur unraveled in a cloud of steam.
When it cleared there was a startled creature blinking at them.
He said, "Rrrr, I'm hungry!
Didja hear that sound? That's my tummy!
Don't give me no lines! Don't give me no looks!
Don't feed me no lip! Just feed me books!
'Cause I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.
I'm a cross between a bookworm and a dinosaur.
You'd better feed me books or you will hear me roar!
I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.”
They fed him all the reference books they never used,
but the monster still was hungry and escaped.
He broke into an empty elementary school
where he learned that spelling books cause belly aches.
He gobbled up a bookmobile and belched out the wheels.
He swallowed ten pay phone directories.
Then his nostrils started twitching like he smelled a meal.
That's when he burst in through the front door to the library!
He said, "Rrrr, I'm hungry!
Didja hear that sound? That's my tummy!
Don't give me no lines! Don't give me no looks!
Don't feed me no lip! Just feed me books!
'Cause I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.
I'm a cross between a bookworm and a dinosaur.
You'd better feed me books or you will hear me roar!
I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.”
He found himself a fiction shelf and started to feast.
The librarian was quite surprised indeed!
She grabbed him by the ear and made him take a seat.
She said, "I think I'd better teach you how to read."
The monster was a trifle smarter than he looked,
so it took her very little time to teach him.
And now he holds a whole new attitude toward books.
Every day he reads another pile - and then he eats them!
Today he makes a living writing book reviews.
He chews the bad ones up voraciously.
He loves to put the new words that he learns to use,
so now he's speaking more loquaciously.
He says, "Hmmm. I'm famished.
Did you feel that vibration?
That's my gastric cavity requesting bibliomastication!
'Cause I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.
I'm a cross between a bookworm and a dinosaur.
You'd better feed me books or you will hear me roar!
I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore.
I'm a great green squishy mean bibliovore!"
credits
from The Great Green Squishy Mean Concert CD,
released January 1, 2005
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Monty Harper Stillwater, Oklahoma
Monty Harper is a children's musician in Stillwater, OK. He performs for elementary schools and libraries, helps kids write their own songs in workshops and residencies, does informal science education, and writes songs for clients.
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