GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE
(Irene Higginbotham / Ervin Drake / Dan Fisher)

Billie Holiday - 1946
Carmen McRae - 1955
Joe Williams - 1955
Dinah Washington - 1959
Sam Cooke - 1959
Chris Connor - 1959
Lorez Alexandria (with the Ramsey Lewis Trio) - 1960
Ella Fitzgerald - 1961
Etta Jones - 1962
Billy Eckstine - 1969
Diana Ross (feat. in the film "Lady Sings The Blues") - 1972
Johnny Mathis - 1973
Hank Crawford - 1973
Natalie Cole - 1976
Rosemary Clooney - 1978
Carmen McRae - 1980
George Shearing - 1982
Freddie Jackson - 1985
Mary Coughlan - 1987
Nancy Harrow - 1988
Ruth Brown - 1989
Sheila Jordan - 1989
McCoy Tyner - 1991
Miki Howard - 1992
Laura Fygi - 1993
Johnny Adams - 1993
Karrin Allyson - 1994
Gladys Knight - 1995
Tony Bennett -1996
Lorrie Morgan - 1998
Sheryl Crow - 1998
Etta James - 1999
Ann Hampton Calloway - 2001
Mel Torme (2002)
Chris Botti (2005)
Gretchen Wilson (2005)
Alicia Keys (2006)
Jill Scott (2007)

Also recorded by:
Mary Black; Art Blakey; Chris Botti; Ray Bryant; Lynn Starr;
Joe Henderson; Louis Jordan; George Shearing; Leslie Uggams;
Barbara Paris; Hugh Shannon; Ol' Dirty Bastard; Bob Stewart;
Bobby Tucker; Charlie Watts: .............. and many others.



Good morning heartache, you old gloomy sight
Good morning heartache, thought we said goodbye last night
I turned and tossed until it seemed you had gone
But here you are with the dawn

Wish I'd forget you, but you're here to stay
It seems I met you when my love went away
Now everyday I start by saying to you
Good morning heartache, what's new

Stop haunting me now
Can't chase you no how
Just leave me alone
I've got those Monday blues
Straight through Sunday blues

Good morning heartache, here we go again
Good morning heartache, you're the one who knew me when
Might as well get used to you hanging around
Good morning heartache, sit down

(Orchestral Interlude)

Stop haunting me now
Can't chase you no how
Just leave me alone
I've got those Monday blues
Straight through Sunday blues

Good morning heartache, here we go again
Good morning heartache, you're the one who knew me when
Might as well get used to you hanging around
Good morning heartache, sit down


(Transcribed from the Rosemary Clooney
recording by Mel Priddle - Feb 2009)