vocal lead sheet
A Crazy Song To Sing
Music by THELONIOUS MONK
Lyric by JUDY NIEMACK
Slowly
*
Monk’s “Mis ter
i
o
so” is
a
When I
first heard Monk I thought his
cra
mus
zy
ic
song to
was sur
sing. He makes you
pris ing. All the
jump
twists
a
and
round
turns
the
cre
tune
a
just
ted
like
a
a
sus
pup
pense
pet
un
on
com
a
pro
takes
years
it
go
up
by
a
I
fourth and
find I’m
then
nev
re
er
peats
ti
it
red
one
by
more time,
his
whim
did
pres
n’t
sion
hear
and
it
the
clear
way
or
plays
for
a
got
round
to
a
make
chord
it
pro
pret
’ev
ty
er
lit
I
by
don’t
a
know
why
lis
I’m
ten
tle
feel
sing
ing
dit
blue
ing
to
ly
he
ty
and
writ
I
Monk’s “Mis
Monk’s “Mis
en
just
ter
ter
i
i
vir
what
o
o
tu
to
so.”
so.”
* Circled notes are bass notes.
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string
mis
and
ing
then
and
he
as
in
si
case
cal
you
ex
just
So
a
when
rhyme. It’s
gres sion.
o
do
so
I
and
start
that’s
by
C
lead sheet
Get It Straight
Well,
got
head
to
of
Monk said
Monk had
on,
time,
be
his
So
He
trust
was
Don’t wait for
He
knew the
mo
can’t
ment
pack
it
a
is
up
the
the
straight,
way
it’s
of
you’ve got
not
in
your
un
no
an
life
com
one,
swer,
place where it
mo
ment and
to
the
out
be
of
ing
time when you
his
out of
be strong,
same rhyme
the
as
wait.
day.
time
oth
You’ve
A
is
er
here.
guys.
ear.
wise.
to
mon
your
ly
they’ll
that
have
to
time’s a
hap
take
Music byTHELONIOUS MONK
Lyric by SALLY SWISHER
pens
it
grow
dan
and
with
one,
cer.
there’s no
you
on
be
He
cause
knew
the
you
one
the
who
road,
can
so
1
help
Get
now
is
It
Straight.
2
the
time.
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2. This
Highfalutin’
vocal lead sheet
Instrumentally known as “Little Rootie Tootie”
Music by Thelonious Monk
Lyric by Bebe Herring and Roberta Gambarini
3
Medium swing
3
Intro
3
(solo Piano)
3
3
3
3
A
3
3
3
You’re bang in’
You’re swing in’
3
a
round
and sway
and mak in’
in’, bawl in’
a
and
sound
bray
that’s loud.
in’
Bop!
3
3
3
3
3
Y’ got ta
be thump
The neigh bors are knock
in’,
in’,
hum min’ or
wail in’ and
strum
rock
min’, proud.
in’, “Stop!”
3
3
3
You don’t turn it
But they took a
down,
hike,
your Dad ’ll leave town,
so
I
got a
tyke
and
can
how.
hop!
3
3
Oh
Oh
Root
Root
ie,
ie,
you’re driv
let
up
in’
for
me
a
wild.
while.
B
3
3
Bass walks
3
Oh
3
and
C
Root ie,
when you
were
born,
3
I
A
3
3
3
solos
3
could n’t
get
off
my
horn;
A “rhythm changes”
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3
Highfalutin’ - page 2
3
3
so
just
like
an
oak’s
a
corn,
3
3
Kid, you had to
C
3
3
3
blow
flute
so
fine.
3
3
n’t
bad;
oh
my!
3
3
be
horn
in’
time!
3
the
3
3
3
sound like your Dad,
and that is
3
3
3
in
even
3
Zoot,” you’re toot in’
3
You’re up
we know!
3
Like your “Bub ba
You
3
n’t
3
3
8vb
Oh, did
even
the morn
in’, ’t’s got ta
3
to solos
3
after solos
Oh
Root
ie,
you’re
Coda
mak
in’
me
D.S.
smile!
Bass plays melody or walks)
3
3
Oh
3
Root
ie,
Root
ie,
3
up
for
a
while!
3
3
Oh
let
you’re driv
in’
me
wild!
3
softer
Oh
3
Root
ie,
you’re so
3
Oh
Root ie,
in
fan
3
3
you’re mak
in’
tile!
me
smile!
al
How I Wish
vocal lead sheet
D
Music by Thelonious Monk
Lyric by Jon Hendricks
Instrumentally known as “Ask Me Now”
A
Once you said you loved me ,
I was vain and blind then ,
placed no one a bove me,
prone to be un kind then ,
prayed for me to make that
wish they’d turn back time some
3
vow.
how.
What dumb thing
Then I
was
did
au
I
da
bus
I
say,
cious ,
1
y
ig
be ing bla sé?
nored what was pre
cious.
2
3
How
3
I wish you’d ask
me
now.
How
I wish you’d ask
me
now.
B
I thought then I’d
How could I
al
have
ways
be
been
so
all
foot loose and
blind ,
what
fan
cy
free.
I
once made light
flat
tered me
of
C
turns out
to
be
more times than
true love.
the
laws
Once my
al
e
go
ruled me ,
low.
You
at
could I
3
3
my
asked me
and fooled me,
ten tion was else
where .
How
I
wish you’d ask
me
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now.
care,
vocal lead sheet
Listen To Monk
Music by Thelonious Monk
Lyric by Jon Hendricks
A
Some folks dance
It’s a
dance
oth
’n
your feet
ers sing
ap prove
Oth
You
ers find some
can make your
way
bod
1
lo ni ous can do
lo ni ous can do
that
that
Just lis ten
Just lis ten
to
to
this
this
to swing
y move
The
The
2
cat.
cat.
You
B
don’t
have
to know how
want me
to show how?
Just be like
a
loose goose
Then you got
to
turn
You
your
bod
you
be
the
to
this
y
loose.
C
Some
lon i
cats
swing
ous can do
’n
oth
that
ers don’t ,
Don’t
Just lis
ten
kind
that won’t ,
cat .
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The
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vocal lead sheet
Little Butterfly
Music by Thelonious Monk
Lyric by Jon Hendricks
Instrumentally known as “Pannonica”
A
Soft
Flut
er
ter
than
ing
silk
one,
and
fair
as
and
warm as
bright as
warm milk,
the sun,
whole tone
3
light as air and a
ble to
light as wind em brac ing the
Blos soms know bliss
Col or ful wings,
fly.
sky.
while they’re wait ing for her kiss. Pan
soft and
gai ly paint ed things. Pan
B
non
non
i
i
ca,
ca,
my
my
but
but
ter
ter
Like
fly.
fly.
the
love
ly
flow
ers,
3
I
wait for
One
ho
urs
just
3
she’ll flut ter
day
to
feel that touch,
by,
the
touch that I
I’ll hold out my hand
and
love
so much.
cap ture my but
ter fly.
C
3
Del i
cate things
such as
but ter fly wings
po
ets can’t de scribe, ’tho they
*
whole tone
try.
non
* optional
Love played a
i
ca,
my
love
ly,
tune
love
ly
when she
lit
tle
but
stepped from her
ter
co
fly.
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coon.
Pan
vocal lead sheet
A
Looking Back
Ballad
Music by THELONIOUS MONK
Lyric by JON HENDRICKS
A
3
A
As I’m re
think of
I
flect ing back on
paths I might have
my
tak
It’s like a dream
Lives I’d have changed
life
en
3
3
Things are not quite what
Some liv ing souls re
seem
ranged
they
ar
1
There’s al ways some
and I’m a mazed
thing
how
ing
der
miss
ten
2
3
3
B
some thing un seen
B
C
(but dim ly
B
3
re
B
E
3
A
mem bered). feel ings can be
3
3
3
In look ing back
we just peep through the crack
be tweenwhat’s real
and
false
3
In
this e
ter
nal
waltz
Mean
while we all
keep
danc
ing.
C
3
Now, at
the end of
my re
flect
ions
I have to say
I would live life the same
3
way
but that’s the way
life
goes
3
3
Thank God I’m
3
a
man who
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knows.
Man, That Was A Dream
vocal lead sheet
Music by THELONIOUS MONK
Lyric by JON HENDRICKS
A
3
I
I
dreamed of a
dreamed of a
3
life
mu
that was pure
sic I
had
do
way
job
on ly I
could
played, I would play my
and
to
true
play
One wo man there be side me,
Two fas cin a ting child ren,
1
2
Man,
that was a dream .
Dreams, that was a beaut .
we’d be a team
Boo boo and Toot
B
3
3
dreamed of a
dreamed when I
I
I
I dreamed it was
All
life
through
I’d
3
be
true
for
tune would come
3
strug glin’and get tin’ by
my way
3
3
Try in’ to nev
3
3
mean in’ ex
er lie
act
ly
what
I
say
I dreamed I had
C
3
fame
and a
life sub
lime
I dreamed I made prints
in
the sands
of
time
3
smack dab
in
to
the spot light,
bathed in
its beam
Man,
that was a dream.
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Monkery’s The Blues
vocal lead sheet
key of B
Instrumentally known as “Blue Monk”
Music by Thelonious Monk
Lyric by Abbey Lincoln
Medium slow swing
1. Go in’ a
lone,
2. Life is
a
school,
3. Find ing your one
life is
your own
’less you’re a fool
place in the sun
but the cost some times
but the learn ing brings
does n’t come the eas
3
Be
ing
Know ing
Shal low
com plete,
at
once,
ain’t deep,
know ing
you’re just
no
thing
de
a
is
feat,
dunce,
cheap,
3
keep ing
trial and
meas ure
Monk er
Monk er
Monk er
on
er
by
y’s
y’s
y’s
from year
ror, loss
the dues
the blues
a
slow,
a
blue
to
and
you
you hear,
slow train,
high way,
year.
gain.
pay.
It takes some do
It takes some do
It takes some do
keep ing on
trial and er
meas ure by
from year to
ror loss and
the dues you
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ing,
ing,
ing,
year.
gain.
pay.
is
dear.
you pain.
y
way.
Peace Of Mind
vocal lead sheet
E
Instrumentally known as “Let’s Cool One”
Music by Thelonious Monk
Lyric by Giacomo Gates
Medium swing
*
A
In
If
these times of
your life is
stress and
much too
hur
fast
ry,
now,
if
you’re feel in’
nev er
e
nough
blue,
time,
I’ve
per
1
got
haps
a
you
song
should
for
you to
sing
to.
2
learn
this
rhyme.
B
You’ve
got
to
live
Peace,
your whole
peace
life,
of
day
at
3
a
time.
mind.
C
Now you’ve got
my
sim
ple
**
hear me now,
* [ = open voicing (root and 7th only)
** based on quarter note triplets
starting on the and of 2
may
an
swer,
walk
in
stead
6
be
of
6
you should cool one, let’s you and me
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run.
cool one.
So
vocal lead sheet
A
Still We Dream
Music by THELONIOUS MONK
Lyric by MIKE FERRO
A
You
What’s
and
in
I,
store?
I
It
think we
know
seems we’ve played
the rea son
this scene be
why
fore,
1
far
makes
it’s
it
been
less
quite
a
charm
larm
ing.
ing.
let’s
go
so
which
2
B
Dim
that
the
light,
this
and
time
on
it’s
pre
tend
real.
ing
So
C
round
still
and
round,
we
the
dream
car
ou
sel
is
wind
of
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ing
down,
love.
And
When I’m Alone
vocal lead sheet
Instrumentally known as “Brilliant Corners”
Music by THELONIOUS MONK
Lyric by Roberta Gambarini and Don Sickler
( = ca. 96)
A
When I’m a
lone,
I
be gin to
hear this mel o
dy
ring ing in my
ear
3
con stant ly.
Slow ly it grows,
it
be gins a
3
some thing brand new, I
path that leads to
can’t
B
3
3
3
for get that!
Tear ing the si lence of this lone ly room a voice is call ing through the dark,
3
3
it’s a
spark
sound
is
a
sud
den
ly;
3
flash ing there
to
3
light a
fire in
3
my
heart and soul!
Now I know this
C
gift
giv en
us
there
is
1
to
no
face the night and
end,
2
dance
noth
ing
till to mor row
but
**
( )
3
sion
3
and
song that cries of
(fine)
*
pas
a
comes
life!
* repeat melody double-time, no lyric
** solos follow same format
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When I Think Of One
vocal lead sheet
D
Music by THELONIOUS MONK
Lyric by FLEURINE VERLOOP
Medium swing
A
When
I
think of
one
it
u s’lly means I think of you,
but
3
when
you
Am
I
think
of
one,
I
won der who?
A1
in
your
head
the
way that you are haunt ing mine
3
or
is
all
of
this
wast
ing time?
B
3
Ev ’ry day when I
on
my
a
wake,
seems that you are
mind
straight out
of
al
ways there,
my dream’s des
some how
pair.
C
When
I
think of
one
it
u s’lly means I think of
you,
3
when
you
think
of
one,
I
won
der who?
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but