BLACK COFFEE
SARAH VAUGHAN
SONGWRTTER: SONNY BURKE
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: BLACK COFFEE
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1949

"Black Coffee" is a song. The music was written by Sonny Burke (based on the 1938 piece "What's Your Story Morning Glory" composed by Mary Lou Williams), the lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. The song was published in 1948. Sarah Vaughan charted with this song in 1949 on Columbia.
Peggy Lee recorded the song on May 4, 1953 and it was included on her debut album Black Coffee.
It was included in the soundtrack for the 1960 Columbia Pictures feature Let No Man Write My Epitaph, recorded on Verve by Ella Fitzgerald, also in 1960. The version by Ella Fitzgerald was a favourite song of Polish Nobel Prize laureate Wisława Szymborska who chose it as the song to be performed at her funeral.
I'm feelin' 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 talkin to the shadows
One o'clock till 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

Now a man is born to go a-lovin'
And a woman's born to weep and fret
And stay at home and tend her oven
And down her past regrets
In coffee and cigarettes

I'm moanin' all the morning
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 waitin' for my baby
To maybe come around
(Sarah Humming)

THE STABLE SONG

GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV
SONGWRITER: GREGORY ALAN IZAKOV
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
ALBUM: THAT SEA, THE GAMBLER
LABEL: GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV
GENRE: FOLK
YEAR: 2007

That Sea, the Gambler is the third studio album by Folk singer Gregory Alan Isakov. It was released in 2007
Gregory Alan Isakov is a singer-songwriter. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he emigrated to the United States as a child, and was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia, he began touring with a band at the age of 16, and later moved to Colorado. His music combines indie and folk, featuring instruments such as the guitar and banjo. Some of his most popular songs include "The Stable Song", "Big Black Car", and "Raising Cain".
Isakov has spent his entire life traveling, and as a result, his travels have impacted his songwriting; his songs tell stories of miles and landscapes and the search for a sense of place. Music has been a constant force in his life, as he says, "I've always had this sense about music and writing, that I sort of have to do it. Like I'll implode without it. I probably wouldn't do it if I felt any other way."
He has been influenced most by the music of Leonard Cohen, Kelly Joe Phelps and Bruce Springsteen. Gregory has played at many music festivals held across the United States, Canada and Europe. Outside of music, he spends his time working in his market garden.
Remember when our songs where just like prayers.
Like gospel hymns that you called in the air.
Come down come down sweet reverence,
Unto my simple house and ring
And ring.

Ring like silver, ring like gold
Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio
Ring like clear day wedding bells
Were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell
We'll never tell.

Come to me clear and cold on some sea
Watch the world spinning waves like machine

Now I've been crazy couldn't you tell
I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell
Now I'm covered up in straw, belly up on the table
Well I drank and sang, and passed in the stable.

That tall grass grows high and brown,
Well I dragged you straight in the muddy ground
And you sent me back to where I roam
Well I cursed and I cried, but now I know
Now I know

And I ran back to that hollow again
The moon was just a sliver back then
And I ached for my heart like some tin man
When it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang
Oh it's ringing

Ring like crazy, ring like hell
Turn me back into that wild haired gale
Ring like silver, ring like gold
Turn these diamonds straight back into coal.
Turn these diamonds straight back into coal.
PASSING AFTERNOON
IRON & WINE
SONGWRITER: SAMUEL ERVIN BEAM
WHERE: LIVE AT AQUARIUS RECORDS 2009
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS ALBUM
LABEL: SUB POP
GENRE: FOLK
YEAR: 2004

Our Endless Numbered Days is the second full-length album from Iron & Wine. Released on March 23, 2004 on Sub Pop, it was the first non-solo effort by Sam Beam under his Iron & Wine moniker. Limited edition copies of the vinyl LP came with a bonus 7" vinyl single. Limited edition copies of the CD came with a bonus CD single.
The album's title comes from the lyrics of the song "Passing Afternoon": "There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days."
There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon
Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon
And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her
Wooden spoons, her children stir her bougainvillea blooms

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days
Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made
And she's chosen to believe in the hymns her mother sings
Sunday pulls its children from the piles of fallen leaves

There are sailing ships that pass all our bodies in the grass
Springtime calls her children until she let's them go at last
And she's chosen where to be, though she's lost her wedding ring
Somewhere near her misplaced jar of bougainvillea seeds

There are things we can't recall, blind as night that finds us all
Winter tucks her children in, her fragile china dolls
But my hands remember hers, rolling around the shaded ferns
Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I'd never learned

There are names across the sea, only now I do believe
Sometimes, with the window closed, she'll sit and think of me
But she'll mend his tattered clothes and they'll kiss as if they know
A baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone
Springtime.

ME PARÉ DE QUERERTE

LILY Y EL GRAN TRIO
COMPOSITOR: ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ
PAIS: PUERTORRICO
ALBUM: LYLI Y SU GRAN TRIO
DISCOGRÁFICA: DISCO HIT
GÉNERO: LATIN
AÑO: 2011

 “Este homenaje me ha tomado por sorpresa. Desde que comencé mi carrera, es el primero. Así que tengo que estar agradecida de Dios y de las personas que lo organizan”.
La cantante se siente agradecida por el honor que le otorga el Instituto de Cultura.
Así reaccionó la cancionera Lydia Delgado Figueroa, conocida como Lily, la directora del Gran Trío y a quien el Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP) le dedicó la XXI Velada de Tríos, en la plaza pública de Trujillo Alto.
“He tenido que luchar y trabajar para llegar al lugar donde estoy. He podido tener este trío unido, con buena vibra. Me quieren y yo adoro a la gente. Me siento feliz, pero homenajes como este, nunca. Es el primero”.
De su biografía, suministrada por el ICP a los medios, se desprende que su primer disco “Toma mi corazón” consagró a Lily y su Gran Trío en la preferencia de los amantes de la música de tríos en las comunidades hispanas de Estados Unidos.
Yo te quise con locura
Sin pensar nunca olvidarte por nada
Yo te amaba con ternura
Con temor de arrancarte de mi alma

Pero fueron tantas cosas que me hiciste
Demasiado te atreviste y de quererte me pare
Pero fueron tantas cosas que me hiciste
Demasiado te atreviste y de quererte me pare

Me pare cuando vi que en ti cruzaba
una zonda envenenada llena de odio y maldad
Me pare cuando vi que en ti cruzaba

una zonda envenenada llena de odio y maldad

Me pare por siempre mi vida
de quererte por toda tu falsedad
Me pare por siempre mi vida
de quererte por toda tu falsedad

Me pare cuando vi que en ti cruzaba
una zonda envenenada llena de odio y maldad
Me pare cuando vi que en ti cruzaba
una zonda envenenada llena de odio y maldad

Me pare por siempre mi vida
de quererte por toda tu falsedad
Me pare por siempre mi vida
de quererte por toda tu falsedad.