I was perusing the Blue songbook [which I had lost many years ago, but which a fellow lister lent me recently - thanks, Janine :-) ], and I came across this oddity:
In the middle of the book, where the lyrics are printed stand-alone, those for All I Want are correct. However, in the sheet music itself, the following differences appear (no doubt from an earlier version of the song) : By the light, I want to get up and jump, I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dump replaced later by Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive, I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive. Do you want to take a chance And maybe find in some sweet romance with me, baby replaced later by Do you want to take on cahnce On maybe finding some sweet romance with me, baby Cause applause replaced later by Applause, applause Then we both get so unglued later replace by Then we both get so blue The greed of the unraveling later replaced by The greed is the unravelling Make you feel better later replaced by I want to make you feel better And finally ther is a wanna later replaced by a want to. Most of the above feel like typos, but the ones that are clearly not typos suggest otherwise. My guess is that both types of differences are involved, s ince there are numerous obvious typos elsewhere in the book, in both the sheet music and the lyrics only sections. Of course, in her "pnik dress BBC concert, the lyrics to All I Want were not fully formed, and went through substantial later revisions. By the way, in the sheet music section, "mantle of the moon" is printed instead of "Mattala Moon", while the lyrics section shows "Mattala of Moon". Finally, this songbook has some unusually interesting (color) photos of JM, in an overgrown area surrounding a house (where ?). In one of them (she is sitiing crosslegged, holding some fruit - oranges or tangerines - I detect bags under her eyes - part of the price of blue. Also, the print of this book is entirely in blue ink - pretty cool (only one I have ever seen that way). Unfortunately, the arrangements are pretty mediocre - I would call them poor. Bob S.
