Book related songs

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• 2112 - Rush
• Are You Sitting Comfortably - The Moody Blues
• Ballad Of A Thin Man By Bob Dylan
• Book Of Dreams -Suzanne Vega
• Caress Of Steel,- -Rush
• Charlotte Sometimes, - The Cure -- Based On The Book By Penelope Farmer
• Cinderella" By Play,
• Click Your Heels" By Rockwell Church.
• Dark Ships In The Forest Album - Oak And Ash And Thorn
• Desolation Row By Bob Dylan
• Diamond As Big As The Ritz,- Jimmy Buffett
• Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police (Mentions Nabokov)
• Ender Will Save Us All -- Dashboard Confessional--  A Song That Relates To Ender's Game
• Everyday I Write The Book -- Elvis Costello
• Fiction - Joni Mitchell
• Fly By Night, - Rush
• Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying - Belle And Sebastian
• Hard Times For Lovers (1979)  Judy Collins
• House At Pooh Corner, By Loggins And Messina.
• I Am A Rock" By Simon And Garfunkel ("I Have My Books, And My Poetry To Protect Me").
• I Could Write A Book - Richard Rogers,
• Idiot Wind By Bob Dylan
• Joey By Bob Dylan - He Did Ten Years In Attica, Reading Nietzsche And Wilhelm Reich
• Killing An Arab - The Cure (Based On Camus's The Stranger)
• Lisa Librarian By Velocity Girl
• Loitering In The Lobby" By Eddie From Ohio
• Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting -- Was Inspired By Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.
• Moon Over Tuscon - Carrie Newcomer -- A Song Based On Barbara Kingsolver's Book "High Tide In Tuscon"  The Song Is , And It's On Her Album,
• My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors, By Moxy Fruvous.
• Naulakha Redux - John Roberts And Tony Barrand - Entirely Kipling Songs
• Nightfall In Middle Earth - Blind Guardian --  Based On Tolkien's_Silmarillion_.
• One; - Metallica - Based On The Dalton Trumbo Novel, Johnny Got His Gun.
• Open Book - Cake
• Paperback Writer - Beatles
• Ramble On," By Led Zeppelin:
• Remittance Man,- Jimmy Buffett
• Richard Cory, - Simon And Garfunkel -- After The Edwin Arlington Robinson Poem.
• Rime Of The Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden
• Romeo & Juliet  - Indigo Girls
• See It Was Like This - Aztec Two-Step
• Song For Myla Goldberg By The Decemberists (From Her Majesty The Decemberists)
• Song Of Wandering Aengus - Karan Casey, (Yeats Poem),
• Tales Of Brave Ulysses - Cream
• Tales Of Mystery And Imagination - Alan Parsons Project--All Songs Based On Edgar Allan Poe Stories And Poems.
• The Ballad Of Humpty Dumpty And Cinderella"
• The Ballad Of Skip Wiley - Jimmy Buffett
• The Battle Of Evermore. Led Zeplin
• The Book I Read - Talking Heads
• The Book I'm Not Reading By Patty Larkin.
• The Book Lovers By Broadcast (From The Book Lovers Ep)
• The Book Of Love By The Magnetic Fields
• The Dangling Conversation  - Simon And Garfunkle
• The Ghost Of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
• The Highwayman (It's The Whole Poem) - Loreena Mckinnett,
• The Lady Of Shallott - Loreena Mckennitt (From Tennyson's Idyll's Of The King)
• The Old Man's Song, By June Tabor
• The Persecution And Restoration Of Dean Moriarty (On The Road)"
• This Is Just A Modern Rock Song - Belle And Sebastian (Has A Line "Not As Smart As Dostoyesvsky, Not As Clever As Mark Twain.)
• This Town Is Wrong - The Nields
• Touch Of Gray By The Grateful Dead
• Turn The Page - Bob Seger
• Virginia Woolf - The Indigo Girls
• White Rabbit.- Jefferson Airplane
• Wrapped Up In Books By Belle And Sebastian (From Dear Catastrophe Waitress)
• Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush.

 

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