Blue Monk - Abbey Lincoln
Going' alone life is your own but the cost sometimes is dear
Being complete knowing defeat keeping on from year to year
It takes some doing monkey'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 monkey'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 or deep nothing is cheap measured by the dues you pay
It takes some doing monkey's a blue highway measured by the dues you pay
It takes some doing monkery's the blues you hear keeping on from year to year
Keeping on from year to year