FIVE COOPER SQUARE (Five Spot Blues)

Getting' dressed to go now, you know I wanna show now,
Gonna see my baby...
Shinin' up my shoes now, I just lost the blues now,
Gonna do the right thing, makin' sure the night swings...

Take her to a night club, got to be the right club,
Good folks and swingin' music,
Everyone'll be there, Baby don't you be square,
Goin' to the Five Spot, Baby can you make the scene.

Thelonious was there for you, Charlie Rouse was blowin' too,
That's the place I wanna be, that's where they played the real thing...
It was when the music they played called Bebop was the king...
Oh, how I wish that club could still be there and swingin'.

Johnny Griffin, and John Coltrane, David Amram and Cecil Taylor
blew there too...
Let me hip you, you know it was a time of innovation...
There was a sextet with Phil Woods, Charlie Mingus played his goods...
And Sphere, no square...

Everyone raved, Five Cooper Square, everyone played there...
Art Farmer, Lou Donaldson, and even Lester...
Joey and Iggy Termini, they really loved the music...
They even copped Monk's cabaret card back for him, yeah...

So I'm just tryin' to hip you to a little club in the City,
in the Fifties, called the Five Spot...
I wish that I could have been there and really dug the groove...
I wonder what Monk was thinkin' when he wrote that swingin' blues
that he called the Five Spot...

Getting' dressed to go now, you know I wanna show now,
Gonna see my baby...
Shinin' up my shoes now, I done lost the blues now,
Gona do the right thing, makin' sure the night swings...

Take her to a night club, got to be the right club,
Good folks and swingin' music,
Everyonne'll be there, Baby don't you be square,
Goin' to the Five Spot, Baby can you make the scene.