FILK: Granger in Paradise

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 127452


Granger in Paradise

To the tune of Stranger In Paradise from the musical Kismet, by 
Robert Wright & George Forrest (with an assist from Alexander Borodin)

MIDI at:

http://www.hamienet.com/cat348.html

Dedicated to all librarians on HP4GU

THE SCENE: Hogwarts Library, as a rhapsodic HERMIONE, enters her very 
favorite place on earth

HERMIONE 
Oh, see all the shelves 
Of the library swell
With majestic old tomes
And see how I'm bright `n' hale singing 
With joy in my library home 
For in my most studious season
There's no where else I'd rather go
Oh, it's paradise now 
It is truly an Eden
>From which I'll not roam
.

With this card 
I'm a Granger in paradise 
Who'll read ev'ry sage and bard
Whilst ranging through paradise
As I stand Dewey-eyed 
I shall conjure so fair and nice
With volumes that will provide
Magic FAQs

I'm all agog
And quite addicted
By ev'ry catalog
Wond'rous and rare
Soon I'll unfog
All that's restricted
Until I've read
Ev'ry book that is there 

Here is answered the prayers solemn
Of a Granger for paradise 
Be off with your Ron and Krum
My ship is for scholarship 
Just open to any page
No estrangement could e'er entice
The fountain of knowledge is 
Where Granger shall sip!

During the instrumental bridge, MADAM PINCE attempts to quell 
HERMIONE'S musical disturbance

PINCE: 
Your voice so booms
You'll be evicted
Back to your common room
Straight through the door

HERMIONE  & PINCE
That would spell doom 
If I'm/you're convicted 

PINCE:
Unless you can 

HERMIONE
Unless somehow I can

PINCE:
Keep it down to a roar 

HERMIONE
Keep it down to a roar

PINCE:
Golden silence must be observed
Says this strange elder pedagogue

HERMIONE
Don't let me be underserved
Or of manuscripts run out  

HERMIONE & PINCE: 
But open my/your mouth no more
Or exchange songs that I've/you've devised
And then maybe I/you will be
A Gtranger in doubt!

     -	CMC (who also gets rhapsodic when entering a first-class 
library)

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