The XIth Commandment Suite

Lyrics

[Intro] Our first special guest of the evening Uh, this is a guy who, uh, I grew up with when I was playing— If you don't know Gap, you paid too much money to get in here A guy who uh, I had the pleasure of growing up with He went to the Eastman School of Music And we made music together and played in, uh, groups together And he was a member of the Gap Mangione trio He's a guy who people, uh, give, uh, anything to get on a record date Anything to have this guy who's on everybody's album He's the finest drummеr I've ever hеard He's, uh, one of my best friends And, uh, I'm really thrilled that he actually showed up tonight And his name is Steve Gadd This afternoon at about twelve o'clock we came in And took at least an hour and a half for all the Italians to stop crying Saying hello to all the guys they hadn't seen in years, you know And, uh, rehearsed 'til about 6:15 And we pulled out a piece of music that I wrote for Steve's recital back in 1968 I didn't remember it and I was so happy that he didn't either He has to use the music for this one We'd like to play it for you now This is called "The Eleventh Commandment" [Instrumental]