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Blue Monk lyrics
Blue Monk - lyrics by Abbey Lincoln (1961)
Goin' alone, life is your own,
But sometimes the cost is dear.
Being complete, knowing defeat,
Keeping on from year to year.
It takes some doing.
Monkery's the blues you hear,
Keeping on from year to year.
Life is a school, 'less you're a fool,
But the learning brings you pain.
Knowing at once you're just a dunce,
Trial and error, loss and gain.
It takes some doing -
Monkery's a slow, slow train,
Trial and error, loss and gain.
Finding your one place in the sun
Doesn't come the easy way
Shallow and deep, nothing is cheap
Measured by the dues you pay
It takes some doin',
Monkery's a blue highway
Measured by the dues you pay
Part of these releases
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- Track 8 on Complete Prestige Recordings Disc 2
- 7 Work
- 9 I Want To Be Happy
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- Track 3 on The Essential Thelonious Monk
- 2 Bemsha Swing
- 4 Rhythm-A-Ning
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- Track 3 on Thelonious Monk
- 2 Ruby, My Dear
- 4 'Round Midnight
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- Track 1 on Thelonious Monk Trio
- 2 Just A Gigolo
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- Track 1 on Monk's Blues
- 2 Let's Cool One
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- Track 5 on We See
- 4 Hackensack
- 6 Just A Gigolo
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- Track 1 on Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
- 2 Ruby, My Dear
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- Track 6 on Paris at Midnight
- 5 Evidence
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- Track 5 on The Classic Quartet
- 4 Just A Gigolo
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- Track 4 on Blue Monk
- 3 Evidence
- 5 Jackie-ing
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- Track 12 on Paris 1969
- 11 Nutty
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- Track 6 on Paris 1969 Disc 2
- 5 Nutty
- 7 Bright Mississippi
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- Track 1 on European Tour
- 2 Light Blue
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gene 0 points
these are the lyrics of a Steely Dan song called Midnight Cruiser
Mad 0 points
Wrong Lyrics.