Lyr Add: I'd Rather Make Coffee Than Love

Subject: Lyr Add: I'D RATHER MAKE COFFEE THAN LOVE
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 May 01 - 12:04 PM

I found the basic "I'd Rather Make Coffee Than Love" in the DT, but the three verses given seemed incomplete storywise, so I wrote the first verse given below. No tune was given, so I wrote one, and found the original two-line chorus inadequate, so I've added two lines to the chorus.

The bold-faced parts below are my additions; ordinary typeface are as it appears in the DT.

Now if I just had a way to submit my tune I'd be happy!

I like to introduce this as "A song that points a moral: When you're looking for your one-and-only, be VERY careful where you find her!

Dave Oesterreich

I'D RATHER MAKE COFFEE THAN LOVE

He met her at Starbucks, he bought her a cup
They sipped and they flirted, while he picked her up.
It was "My pad or yours," but when push came to shove
She preferred making coffee to love.

Chorus:
She'd rather make coffee than love
She preferred making coffee to love.
Her outspoken credo was "Damn the libido,
I'd rather make coffee than love!"

Though he brought her sweet candy, a flower, a dove
She preferred making pots of hot coffee to love.
Though from Everest he plucked her a star from above
She preferred making coffee to love.

cho:

She would even brew scrapings from overdone toast
She would open her arms to Sumatran French Roast
Her cafe au lait was the lait she loved most
"I'm Queen of the Bean," was her boast.

cho:

He'd have given her Cuba for one litle kiss
A Vesuvio brewer, accounts with the Swiss
When he married her, thinking that thus he'd find bliss
She preferred making coffee to love.

cho:

DRO

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: MMario
Date: 11 May 01 - 12:07 PM

dave - can you do the dots/tadpoles/notation? if so, a scanned image can be sent to me at [e-mail]; if you don't have access to a scanner a hardcopy can be snail mailed to me.

I would be happy to put it into a form that can be posted.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 May 01 - 12:12 PM

If you would give me a snailmail address via PM, I'll send you a tape of me singing it. Maybe some other things too.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 May 01 - 12:12 PM

The "lait" she loved most? Dave, what are we going to do with you?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 May 01 - 12:13 PM

Frankly, that's my favorite line of the original three verses.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 May 01 - 03:54 PM

MMario, my Beautiful Wife, who is the musician in the family, has volunteered to write it out in musical notation for me, and I can mail it to you.

Mrzzy, I am also sort of proud of the second half of the third line of my introductory verse.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: mousethief
Date: 11 May 01 - 04:01 PM

DaveO said: MMario, my Beautiful Wife,

Is there something you need to tell us, Mmario?

Alex

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: MMario
Date: 11 May 01 - 04:03 PM

yes, I have to confess, DaveO put his comma in the wrong place...

(I feel much better now - the agony of hiding the truth is over)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 May 01 - 06:24 PM

Sorry to be a pedant, but there was no error with the comma. A comma comes after direct address, "Mmario". Then a comma between "my Beautiful Wife" and the explanatory phrase that follows, "who is the musician in the family", and again after that phrase.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: MMario
Date: 11 May 01 - 10:35 PM

I knew I'd get into trouble no matter HOW I answered that one....

MMariofootinmouth

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 May 01 - 12:00 AM

One of them frases(sic) needed a semi colon......and don't let's get started on colons, OK? LOL! English teachers tell me that double comma phrases are not good. Great additions, Dave!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 May 01 - 10:32 AM

Just a passing thought:

Then one I came home, found my stuff in the street,
And a note on the door which filled me with grief,
She'd met Juan Valdez, now her life was complete,
She preferred making coffee to love.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 13 May 01 - 10:31 PM

Charley Noble: A great verse to tie up the story. It needs to be third person, however, to fit with the rest of the song. I may well use it.

I've sent the music to MMario. It may be he can submit it, as I can't.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: MMario
Date: 14 May 01 - 08:55 AM

will post the miditxt and send an NWC file to Joe when I get the music.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 May 01 - 11:01 AM

I seem to have missed a word in the first line:

Then one DAY I came home, found my stuff in the street,

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: MMario
Date: 23 May 01 - 05:38 PM

Dave's Tune

MIDI file: cofflove.mid

Timebase: 192

Name: I'd Rather Make Coffee Than Love
Text: By additional lyrics & music by David Oesterreich
Copyright: Copyright © 2001 by David Oesterreich
Key: A
TimeSig: 6/8 24 8
Start
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End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1
T:I'd Rather Make Coffee Than Love
M:6/8
Q:1/4=120
K:A
C6|EFEECE|DEDD2B,|DEEDB,D|CDCC2C/2D/2|EEF=G2=G|
EFFED2|B,/2C/2DDDDG,|-G,B,2A,3|-A,2EAAA|AG=GF3|
-F2G/2A/2GGF|EFDC3|-C2EAAA|AG=GF3/2F/2E|DCDE/2E3/2E|
B,DCG,3|-G,13/8||

NWC file will go to Joe as soon as I get back from vacation.

Midi submitted to Alan of Oz for the midi site.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 May 01 - 05:25 PM

Either you make really fantastic coffee or else I'm missing something here...!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Expand: I'd rather make coffee than
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 May 01 - 08:28 PM

The Romans had an expression for it:

De gustibus non disputandum est."

Dave Oesterreich