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Track: Black Coffee
Artist: Sarah Vaughan
Album: After Hours

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Name: Sarah Vaughan
Spotify Genres: vocal jazz, jazz
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American jazz singer, born 27 March 1924 in Newark, New Jersey, USA, died 3 April 1990 in Hidden Hills, California, USA. Having won a talent contest in 1942 at Harlem's Apollo Theater with her rendition of "Body And Soul", she was member of [a=Earl Hines And His Orchestra] between 1942 and 1944, and from 1944 to 45 of [a=Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra]. From 1946 to 1957 she was accompanied on the piano by [a=Jimmy Jones (3)], [a=Ronnell Bright] and [a=Kirk Stuart]. She worked with [a=John Kirby] and became a solo artist. She was married three times: to [a=George Treadwell] (1946–1958), to [a=Clyde B. Atkins] (1958–1961), and to [a=Waymon Reed] (1978–1981).

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Release: Sarah Vaughan - Black Coffee / As You Desire Me
Year: 1949
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Vocal

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LYRICS

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 to four
and lord, how slow the moments go
when all I do is pour
black coffee

since the blues caught my eye
I'm hanging out on monday
my sunday dream's too dry

now, a man is born to go a-loving
a woman's born to weep and fret
to stay at home and tend her oven
and drown her past regrets
in coffee and cigarettes

I'm moody all the morning
mourning all the night
and inbetween, it's nicotine
and not much hard to fight
black coffee

feeling low as the ground
it's driving me crazy
just waiting for my baby
to maybe come around

my nerves have gone to pieces
my hair is turning gray
all I do is drink black coffee
since my man's gone away