With this sheet music, you can play the famous jazz / pop standard "For Once in My Life" on piano!

It's a playable, beautiful piano arrangement which contains the full melody, so it makes for a perfect instrumental (piano solo) cover.

Written by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden for Motown Records, it was first recorded in the mid-60s by Connie Haines and Jean DuShon.

Stevie Wonder recorded it as the title track for hit 1967 album, and it became a huge hit!

Other famous versions were recorded by Frank Sinatra, The Temptations, Diana Ross, Tony Bennett, and Michael Bublé.

Today, "For Once in My Life" is a popular jazz standard / pop standard, and it's a fantastic song to play on the piano!

Here are the song's famous lyrics:

For once in my life
I have someone who needs me
Someone I have needed so long
For once unafraid
I can go where life leads me
And somehow I know I'll be strong

For once I can touch
What my heart used to dream of
Long before I knew
Someone warm like you
Would make my dreams come true

For once in my life
I won't let sorrow hurt me
Not like it's hurt me before
For once I have something
I know won't desert me
I'm not alone anymore

For once I can say
"This is mine, you can't take it"
Long as I know I have love
I can make it
For once in my life
I have someone who needs me

This short collection of 12 delightful and inventive miniatures for piano is intended for any Christmas event in schools and churches. They could be used as musical interludes in the narration of the Biblical nativity story or would be suitable for any end-of-semester events. All the pieces are short and with the exception of the final one, each fits on to a single page. They are written with the intermediate pianist in mind although there is quite wide range of difficulty level between the pieces. They can be performed in any order you wish, or even with different pianists taking part. The titles include: Desert Horizon, Camel Train, To the Evening Star, Pilgrims? Song, Song of the Two Shepherds, The Call to the Stable, Song of the Eastern Kings, Mary?s Lullaby to the Child, Ballad of Mary and Joseph, Dance of the Nativity, Hymn to the Holy Child, The Bells Ring Out. The audio sample contains the following numbers (1) Desert Horizon; (2) Camel Train; (3) Song of the Two Shepherds; (4) The Call to the Stable; (5) Dance of the Nativity; (6) Hymn to the Holy Child and (7) The Bells Ring Out.