Ei! wie schmeckt der Coffee süße,
Lieblicher als tausend Küsse,
Milder als Muskatenwein.
Coffee, Coffee muss ich haben,
Und wenn jemand mich will laben,
Ach, so schenkt mir Coffee ein!
(Mm! how sweet the coffee tastes, more delicious than a thousand kisses, mellower than muscatel wine. Coffee, coffee I must have, and if someone wishes to give me a treat, ah, then pour me out some coffee!)
–Johann Sebastian Bach, Kaffee-Kantate
One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go to the valley below
–Bob Dylan, “One More Cup of Coffee”
I’m dirty from the diesel fumes, drinking coffee black
When the first breath of Texas comes in clean
–Indigo Girls, “Southland in the Springtime”
And we talk about time
And we talk about tides
Under the moon with the deep night coffee black
–Indigo Girls, “Winthrop”
And when I’m drunk on the last drop of sadness about how we went wrong
I’m gonna play this song
Make some coffee black and strong
–Indigo Girls, “Last Tears”
(I come to suspect Emily Saliers must have a black coffee jones comparable to mine…)
So you’ll add to the local color
Serving coffee with a cruller
Dunkin’ doesn’t take a lot of skill
They’ve got an awful lot of coffee
An awful lot of coffee
Man, they got a gang of coffee in Brazil!!
– Frank Sinatra, ‘The Coffee Song’
Just drank a cup of coffee and I didn’t really need it
but I know I got a habit and I know I gotta feed it
I got coffee in the morning I got coffee in the night
and when I drink my coffee I am higher than a kite
COFFEE, COFFEE, COFFEE!! I GOT COKE AND PEPSI TOO!
There’s all this coffee, coffee, coffee, and my gut is filled with goo
I drink coffee with my brother and coffee with my friends
with all the Cops at Dunkin Donuts and my high, it never ends!
– AWOL (aka 7 Minds), ‘Coffee’
Car alarm won’t let you back to sleep
You’re kept awake dreaming someone else’s dream
Coffee is cold but it’ll get you through
Compromise that’s nothing new to you
There is a band I used to follow in college called Skavoovie and the Epitones. They had a song actually called “I Hate Coffee.” One of my favorites lines were as follows:
(It was wriiten primarily against Starbucks, which drove all their favorite coffee houses out of business…)
Starfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam
Butterscotch cloud, tangerine, side order of ham
If you set your mind free, baby, maybe you’d understand
Starfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam.
Picked up a paper, flipped through the pages
Reached for my coffee cup, yeah I’m still waking up
Late in the day now, what can I say now
Some folks are morning people, I never was one of those
All the same, I’ll get in the game
Give me muddy, muddy water
Now I’m feeling better
You know whatever gets you on
And keeps you up right past the dawn
I’m feeling good now, I’m feeling great now
Let’s do the town now…
I’m feeling mighty lonesome,
Haven’t slept a wink.
I walk the floor and watch the door
And 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 talking to the shadows
One o’clock ‘til 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.
Roddy
All I want is a proper cup of coffee, made in a proper
copper coffee pot,
I may be off my dot, but I want a proper coffee in a
proper copper pot.
Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots, they are no use to
me!
If I can’t have a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper
coffee pot, I’ll have a cup of tea!"
Wow, I figured I get “Black Coffee”, “Java Jive”, or at least “A Proper Cup of Coffee”, but no, they’re all present and accounted for. Dopers are just too smart … and quick … for me.
*The magic bean, the magic bean, it’s the most amazing thing that I’ve ever seen
The magic bean, my kingdom for a cup of magic beans
Don’t need no sugar, don’t need no cream
I need some undiluted fuel for this rockin’ machine
So hear my plea, somebody listen
‘Cause I hate it when there’s too much blood in my coffee system
So I’m going to the Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, too
But try to serve me decaff, baby, you and me are through*
–This Train, “Magic Bean” You can be a Coffee Achiever
You can sit around the house and watch Leave It To Beaver
The future’s up to you
So whatcha gonna do?
—Weird Al Yankovic, “Dare To Be Stupid”
So who you supposed to listen to when you’re looking for something to do
And all the voices shut you up
Someone put a brick in your coffee cup
When you’re trying to decide whether to walk or ride
Take the easy way you know that you want to
Theres a stain on my notebook
Where your coffee cup was
And theres ash in the pages
Now Ive got myself lost
I was writing to tell you
That my feelings tonight
Are a stain on my notebook
That rings your goodbye
Now shes gone
And Im back on the beat
A stain on my notebook
Says nothing to me
Now shes gone
And Im out with a friend
With lips full of passion
And coffee in bed Black Coffee In Bed - Squeeze
I thought Spiny Norman might come in to post this, but…
*Boil the water!
And crush the beans
Then blend it in a pot
This drink is fit for kings and queens!
So get it while it’s hot
Some folks need gin and tonic to get their motor going
Some folks prefer a cup of tea
Some folks need twenty beers before their legs are moving
But none of that applies to me
I want coffee
Coffee!
Coffee
Coffee!
It’s gotta be Colombian
It’s gotta be Colombian
Coffee
Coffee!
It’s gotta be Colombian Blend*
– Tintin og Hårtørrerne, ‘Columbian Blend’
