Looking back over my very much younger years I realize I was quite the 'drama queen' by the songs I listened to.
I had just broken up with a ''lover'--if I remember correctly it lasted a week!-- and I played this song sung by both Ella Fitzgerald and/or Sarah Vaughn--just recently heard a version by K.D. Lang--it's good but not as good as the other two.
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
And all I do is pour
Black coffee
Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hangin' out on monday
My sunday dreams to dry
Now man was born to go a lovin'
But was a woman born to weep and fret
And 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 thinkin' 'bout my baby
Might maybe come around
Come around
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Diane Schur.Ella and Sarah were my vintage,saw Sarah at the five o'clock in Boston,back in the fifties.
Billy Eckstein was another favorite.
Along with Chris Connors,June Christy,remember them all ,Anita O"Day.
the big band along with Stan kenton,bring back many memories,Black Coffee was one of my favorite,remember Just Friend's were lover's no more
Just Friends like the day before,etc.[SMILE][SMILE][THUMBUP][THUMBUP]