IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND
(Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers)

Miles Davis

Also recorded by: Beegie Adair; Joy Adams; Peck Allmond;
Eden Atwood; Chet Baker; Polly Bergen; Nate Birkey;
Charles Blenzig; Greg Bobulinski; Joyce Breach;
Ronnell Bright; Les Brown; Marian Bruce; Joy Bryan;
Dan Buegeleisen; Ann Hampton Callaway; Candoli Brothers;
Gerard Carelli; The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band; Joyce Carr;
Barbara Carroll; June Christy; Fay Claassen;
Rosemary Clooney; Holly Cole; John Colianni; 
Eric Comstock; Concord All Stars; Chris Connor;
Barbara Cook; Larry Coryell; Johnny Costa; Mary Coughlan;
Kim Criswell; Claes Crona; Joan Curto; 
Meredith d'Ambrosio; Vic Damone; Lars Danielsson;
Dardanelle; Sammy Davis Jr.; Jim DeJulio; ... and others.


Once I laughed when I heard you saying
That I'd be playing solitaire
Uneasy in my easy chair
It never entered my mind.

And once you told me I was mistaken
That I'd awaken with the sun
And ordered orange juice for one.
It never entered my mind.

You had what I lack, myself
Now I even have to scratch my back myself.

Once you warned me that if you scorned me,
I'd say the maiden's prayer again
And wish that you were there again
To get into my hair again.
It never entered my mind.

It never entered my mind.

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as rec by Ella Fitzgerald w Buddy Bregman & his Orch  
Aug 30th 1956 Los Angeles


I don't care if there's powder on my nose,
I don't care if my hairdo is in place;
I've lost the very meaning of repose,
I never put a mud pack on my face!

Oh, who'd have thought that I'd walk in a daze,
Now I go to shows at night, not just matinees.
Now I see the show
And home I go!

Once I laughed when I heard you saying
That I'd be playing solitaire,
Uneasy in my easy chair;
It never entered my mind!

And once you told me I was mistaken,
That I'd awaken with the sun
And order orange juice for one;
It never entered my mind!

You had what I lack myself,
Now I even have to scratch my back myself!

Once you warned me
That if you scorned me,
I'd sing the maiden's prayer again,
And wish that you were there again
To get into my hair again;
It never entered my mind!

You had what I lack myself,
Now I even have to scratch my back myself!

Once you warned me
That if you scorned me,
I'd sing the maiden's prayer again,
And wish that you were there again
To get into my hair again;
It never entered my mind!





(Transcribed by Peter Akers - March 2011)