The Music of the...Book?

Music is part of our culture. We hear it in movies, hear it in our house, in the car, anywhere we wander if we bring devices for playing music.
Yet there is one part of music that I haven't really understood.


When it is found in books.


Why do some books include 'songs' as they call them inside their covers?
I mean...you can't hear the song being played in the book. Just read the words.
Its just like a glorified poem on the page.


But its hard to have a 'tune' that goes with it.
After all if your book is set in the time of knights and dragons...its kind of hard to say "And this song goes to the tune of 'row row row your boat."


Yet I wonder what this song is that the author hears when they write the words on a page.
Could you not have as a single page on the last page of the book written.
-song page 21 goes to the tune of "Singing in the rain"
-song page 145 goes to the tune of "Mary had a little lamb"
etc.


So why are songs included in books? Is it just because songs are so prevalent in today's culture? Or is there an actual reason for having a silent song......


A good question.....if I could meet an author who did that I would ask them why. lol :)




Until you next see these words;
Enjoy the day!


-Sarnic Dirchi