Intro
Csus4 G6#5#9 [x2]
Verse 1
Csus4 G6#5#9
I'm feeling mighty lonesome
Csus4 G6#5#9
Haven't slept a wink
Csus4 G6#5#9
I walk the floor and watch the door
[Cm] [Cm/Bb] [Cm/A] [Cm/G]
And in-between I drink
[F7]
Black coffee
[C7] [Dm9] [Em7] [A7b9] [A7]
Love's a hand-me-down blues
[D#dim7] [Dm7] [Em7] [Fmaj7] [Dm9]
I'll never know a Sunday
D#dim7 Dm7Dm9 C7 Fhalfdim/G C7 Fhalfdim/G
In this weekday room
Verse 2
C6 G6#5#9
I'm talking to the shadows
C6 G6#5#9
One o'clock to four
C6 G6#5#9
And Lord, how slow the moments go
[Cm] [Cm/Bb] [Cm/A] [Cm/G]
When all I do is pour
[F7]
Black coffee
[C9] [Dm7] [Em7] [A7b9] [A7]
Since the blues caught my light
[D#dim7] [Dm7] [Em7] [Dm7]
I'm hanging out on Monday
[G#m6] [G7] [Cm] [Cm/D] [C7/E] [F7] [C7/E] [Caug/F#]
My Sunday dreams to dry
Bridge
[Fm7] [Cm9]
Now man is born to go loving
[Fm7] [G#m6] [G7b9] [Cadd9] [Am9]
A woman's born to weep and fret
[Em7] [D#m11] [G#7] [C#maj7] [Bbm]
To stay at home and tend her oven
D#m11 G#6add13
And drown her past regrets
[Am7/D] [G7#5]
In coffee and cigarettes
Verse 3
Csus4 G6#5#9
I'm moaning all the mornin'
Csus4 G6#5#9
Moaning all the night
Csus4 G6#5#9
And in-between it's nicotine
[Cm] [Cm/Bb] [Cm/A] [Cm/G]
And not much heart to fight
[F7]
Black coffee
[C7] [C7/D] [C7/E]
Feel as low as the ground
[A7b9]
It's driving me crazy
[Dm9] [Em7] [Fmaj7] [F#dim7] [G7sus4]
This waiting for my baby
[G11]
To maybe come around.
Instrumental
Csus4 G6#5#9 Csus4 G6#5#9
Outro
[Dm9]
My nerves have gone to pieces
[C#add2]
My hair is turning gray
[C7#9]
All I do is drink black coffee
G#7add2 C7#9
Since my man’s gone away
