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Thread #73372   Message #1272013
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
14-Sep-04 - 02:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Java Jive (and other coffee & tea songs)
Subject: Lyr Add: JAVA JIVE (Oakland & Drake)
[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.