Woke Up This Morning

And after three days of drinking with Larry Love
 I just get an inkling to go on home
 So I'm walking down Coldharbour Lane and head hung low
 3 or 4 in the mornin'
 The sun's coming up and the birds are out singin'
 I let myself into my pad
 Wend my way up that spiral staircase and stretch out nice on the Chesterfield
 Pithecanthropus Erectus already on the CD player
 And I just push that remote button to sublimity
 And listen to the sweet sculptural rhythms of Charles Mingus
 And J.R. Monterose and Jackie McLean duet on those saxophones and
 The sound makes its way out the window
 Minglin' with the traffic noises outside, you know and
 All of a sudden I'm overcome by a feelin' of brief mortality
 'Cause I'm gettin' on in the world comin' up on 41 years
 41 stony gray steps towards the grave, you know the box awaits its grisly load
 Now I'm gonna be food for worms
 And just like Charles Mingus wrote that beautiful piece of music "Epitaph" for Eric Dolphy
 I say, so long Eric
 So long John Coltrane and Charles Mingus
 So long Duke Ellington and Lester Young
 So long Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald
 So long Jimmy Reed
 So long Muddy Waters
 And so long Howlin' Wolf
 (Woke up this mornin')
 Woke up this mornin'
 Got yourself a gun
 Your mama always said you'd be the chosen one
 She said "you're one in a million, you got to burn to shine"
 But you were born under a bad sign with a blue moon in your eyes
 And you woke up this mornin'
 All that love had gone
 Your papa never told you about right and wrong
 Hey but you're, but you're looking good, baby
 I believe that you're a-feelin' fine
 Shame about it
 Born under a bad sign with a blue moon in your eyes
 So sing it now
 (Woke up this mornin')
 Oh, yeah
 Oh, yeah
 Woke up this mornin'
 Oh, yeah
 Oh, yeah
 (Woke up this mornin')
 Oh, yeah
 Oh, yeah
 Woke up this mornin'
 Oh, yeah
 Oh, yeah
 I see ya, you woke up this mornin'
 The world turned upside down
 Lord above, things ain't been the same
 Since the blues walked into town
 Hey but you're, but you're, one in a million
 'Cause you got that shotgun shine
 Shame about it
 Born under a bad sign with a blue moon in your eyes
 So sing it now
 (Woke up this mornin')
 You got a blue moon (got a blue moon in your eyes)
 (Woke up this mornin') so sad
 Goddamn, a God damned shame about it
 (Woke up this mornin')
 You got a blue moon (got a blue moon in your eyes), yeah
 (Woke up this mornin')
 Oh, yeah
 Oh, yeah
 Oh, yeah
 Oh, yeah
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 Mister D. Wayne Love
 When you woke up this morning everything was gone
 By half past ten your head was going ding-dong
 Ringin' like a bell from your head down to your toes
 Like some voice tryin'a tell ya there's somethin' you should know
 Last night you was flyin' but today you're so low
 Ain't it times like these makes you wonder if you'll ever know
 The meaning of things as they appear to the others
 Wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers
 Don't you wish you didn't function, don't you wish you didn't think
 Beyond the next pay check and the next little drink
 Well you do so make up your mind to go on
 'Cause when you woke up this mornin' everything you had was gone
 (Woke up this mornin')
 When ya woke up this mornin'
 (Woke up this mornin')
 Ya woke up this mornin'
 (Woke up this mornin')
 You wanna be, you wanna be the chosen one
 (Woke up this mornin') eah you know it 'cause
 You just can't help yourself, yeah
 (Woke up this mornin')
 When ya, woke up this mornin'
 (Woke up this mornin')
 Woke up this mornin'
 (Woke up this mornin')
 Got yourself a gun
 Got yourself a gun
 Got yourself a gun