Coffee Blues

DESCRIPTION: The singer just has to have that "loving spoonful." The singer on his way to bring back his woman, and the preacher in his pulpit, need that loving spoonful before they start. Whiskey and tea don't satisfy the singer like that loving spoonful.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (MJHurt04)
KEYWORDS: nonballad drugs
FOUND IN:
Roud #20956
RECORDINGS:
Mississippi John Hurt, "Coffee Blues" (on MJHurt04)
NOTES [28 words]: Hurt introduces this song with praise for Maxwell House coffee which, he says, has printed on the can, "good to the last drop." "And if I can get just a spoonful...." - BS
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