The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #73372   Message #1302494
Posted By: Jim Dixon
20-Oct-04 - 11:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Java Jive (and other coffee & tea songs)
Subject: Lyr Add: BLACK COFFEE (Burke, Webster)
Lyrics copied from http://www.theguitarguy.com/blackcof.htm
(That page also has chords.)

BLACK COFFEE
Words & Music by Sonny Burke & Paul Francis Webster, 1948.

I'm feelin' mighty lonesome, haven't slept a wink.
I walk the floor from nine to four. In between, I drink
Black coffee. Love's a hand-me-down brew.
I'll never know a Sunday in this weekday room.

I'm talkin' to the shadow, one o'clock till four,
And Lord, how slow the moments go when all I do is pour
Black coffee since the blues caught my eye.
I'm hangin' out on Monday, my Sunday dreams to dry.

BRIDGE: Now, man is born to come a-lovin',
And a woman's born to weep and fret,
To stay at home and tend her oven,
And down her past regrets in coffee and cigarettes.

I'm moonin' all the mornin', moanin' all the night,
And in between, it's nicotine, and not much heart to fight.
Black coffee -- feelin' low as the ground.
It's drivin' me crazy, this waitin' for my baby
'Til he come around, 'til he come around.

[Recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, 1948; Peggy Lee, 1956; Julie London, 1960; Rosemary Clooney, 1963; K. D. Lang, 1988; Sinéad O'Connor, 1992; Sarah Vaughan, and many others.]