Yesterday we had Butch Cassidy, today it's the Sundance Kid. See? Easy when you know how. And he's got a pair of those special binoculars with a camera inside. You ought to get a pair yourself.
Here are ten songs I had to group together under the rather long-winded title of "Famous Wild West Heroes & Outlaws".
And I thought Jimmy spent all his time messing about on boats. Turns out he also hangs around in libraries, looking for love...
She gathered her books, walked while she read Words never spoken but so much was said You can read all you want into this rendezvous But it's safer than most things that lovers can do
He started to woo her in the most peculiar way The librarian's dress was a fawner shade of grey The books he was to borrow he would surely never read They had an intellectual calibre he hoped that she would see
Daddy drives the mobile library. He works peripatetically. He doesn't get much time to play with us So we just read and make up stuff. And it drives him round the bend, Me and my imaginary friend.
You can search the whole library for another song that features the word "peripatetically"... good luck in finding one.
Tuesday she works in the library uptown Some useful knowledge can always be found Don't burn the library till you've read all the books Sometimes in life you get a second look
Not a band that were known for their great literary offerings, but they sure could bang out a tune.
1. Nick Cave - There She Goes, My Beautiful World
Name-dropping the most famous librarian ever and notorious parent-abuser...
While Philip Larkin, he stuck it out
In a library in Hull
Any librarians filed in your stacks? Dewey decimal placings will be required.
Thank you for showing your True Colours again this week with your excellent answers to Saturday Snapshots. Time after time, you just keep getting them right! Thank you.
This week's winner was (as is often the case) first to get out of bed on Saturday morning, and this week that was FurryBootsCityBoy. Question, FBCB - is that an alias for Lynchie? The reason I ask is because you (re-)appeared round these parts about the same time Lynchie disappeared and you seem to answer lots of questions from the same eras Lynchie specialised in. My detective's nose senses a link... but I may be completely wrong.
Anyway, answers...
10. A phoney Cooke makes tough mutton for Egyptian royalty.
Another one for C, though I understand how Alyson thought Ann & Nancy look like First Aid Kit here. Way before the shaggy 80s dos they were more famous for.
3. Riches... and better weather for coffee drinkers.
