Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj



User Name Thread Name Subject Posted
Q (Frank Staplin) Lyr Add: Java Jive (and other coffee & tea songs) (98* d) Lyr Add: JAVA JIVE (Oakland & Drake) 14 Sep 04


[Many song titles in this thread have been converted to links by a Mudelf.]

JAVA JIVE
Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, 1940

I love coffee, I love tea,
I love the Java Jive and it loves me.
Coffee and tea and the jivin' and me,(*java)
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!

I love java sweet and hot,
Whoops, Mr. Moto, I'm a coffee pot.
Shoot me the pot and I'll pour me a shot,
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!

Oh slip me a slug from the wonderful mug
And I'll cut a rug 'til I'm snug in a jug.
A slice of onion and a raw one, Draw one!
Waiter, waiter, percolator!

Chorus:
I love coffee and I love tea,
I love the java jive and it loves me.
Coffee and tea and the jivin' and me, (*java)
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!

Oh, Boston bean, soy bean,
(*Boston beans, soy beans)
Green beans, cabbage and greens.
(*I said the little itty-bitty green bean (cabbage 'n' greens))
I'm not keen for a bean
Unless it's a cheery, cheery bean, boy!
*(You know that I'm not keen about a bean
Unless it is a chili chili bean (Talk it, Boy!))

Chorus

I love java sweet and hot,
Whoops, Mr. Moto, I'm a coffee pot. (*yeah)
Shoot me the pot and I'll pour me a shot,
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!
*(A cup, a cup, a cup an' dat zat bootle!)

Blow me a slug from that wonderful mug
And I'll cut a rug 'til I'm snug in a jug.
Drop a nickel in my pot, Joe, takin' it slow.
Waiter, waiter, percolator!

I love coffee, I love tea,
I love the Java Jive and it loves me.
Coffee and tea and the java and me,
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup- BOY!

Ink Spots and (*Manhattan Transfer).
Chords at The Guitar Guy: Java Jive

'Java' first appeared in print as a substitute name for coffee in 1850, in "Wah-to-Yah, and the Taos Trail, or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire," by Lewis H. Garrard.
Java John's Restaurant, in the Loop in Chicago, was widely known about 1900.
I haven't seen the sheet music, so not sure of the Drake's original lyrics. Possibly inspired by the old children's rhyme.


Post to this Thread -

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.
   * Click on the linked number with * to view the thread split into pages (click "d" for chronologically descending).

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.