Bill Shontz   Deweys Decimals

DEWEY’S DECIMALS
(Oh) a man named Dewey made a system,
A perfect way for you to find,
Any book in the library,
look and you’re bound to see
the number’s written
right there on the spine,
in decimals. Every shelf you find has books
with decimals ordered in a line.

Point 0476, point 0477,
point 478, point 479

Chorus
Oh Dewey’s Decimal System
works just fine for me.
I find every book that I am trying to read,
in the card catalogue at the library.
Oh Dewey’s Decimal System
works just fine.
Oh Dewey’s Decimal System
works just fine.
Point 476, point 477, pont 478, 479

100's are philosophy.
“What is 1 doing here?”
200's are religion.
“2 believe is something dear.”
The 3's are social sciences,
behavior that’s allowed.
In systems of society,
remember, “3's a crowd.”
400's are 4 languages, 4 ever they’ll survive.
500's are the sciences,
“Hey Einstein slap me 5!”
The Sixes: science, technical,
it’s what we make and fix.
Mechanical, electrical,
remember fix and 6.
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700's hold the many arts,
and 7 Wonders, too.
800's are for literature,
cre-8-ted just for you.
Want history? Geology?
GO excavate a mine.
Yea, dig some rocks
and artifacts, or just look in the 9's
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