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Black Coffee
Words & Music by Sonny Burke & Paul Francis Webster, 1948Recorded by Julie London*, 1960
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I'm feelin' mighty lonesome, haven't slept a wink;
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I walk the floor and watch the door, in between I drink
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Black coffee -- love's a hand-me-down broom.
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I'll never know a Sunday in this weekday room.
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I'm talkin to the shadow one o'clock till four,
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And Lord, how slow the moments go when all I do is pour
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Black coffee since the blues caught my eye;
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I'm hangin' out on Monday my Sunday dreams to dry.
Bridge:
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Now man is born to come a-lovin',
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And a woman's born to weep and fret
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To stay at home and tend her oven
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And drown her past regrets in coffee and cigarettes.
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I'm moonin' all the mornin', moanin' all the night
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And in between it's nicotine and not much heart to fight.
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Black coffee -- feelin' low as the ground.
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It's drivin' me cra - zy, this waitin' for my baby
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'Til he come a - round, 'til he come around.
*One of the great torch songs of all time, it has been done by a wide variety of female singers. Ella Fitzgerald put her stamp on it in 1948, Peggy Lee did it it 1956, Rosemary Clooney recorded it in 1963, K.D.Lang did it in 1988, and even Sinead O'Connoer did a take on it in 1992. It sounds like a song Diana Krall has to get around to eventually.