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Blue Monk lyrics
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, monkery's the blues you hear, keeping on from year to year.
Life is a school, less' your a fool, but the learning brings you pain.
knowing at once, you're just a dunce, trail and error loss and gain.
it takes some doing, monkery's a slow slow train, trail 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, Monkery's a blue highway, Measured by the dues you pay.
Part of these releases
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- Track 1 on Abbey Sings Abbey
- 2 Throw It Away
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- Track 4 on Straight Ahead
- 3 In the Red
- 5 Left Alone
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- Track 10 on Through the Years: 1956-2007 Disc 3
- 9 It's Me, O' Lord
- 11 The Music Is the Magic
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