Coffee Song
Last night’s jam session brought these words to mind. (Bluegrass people love coffee)
Coffee Song
VERSE ONE
Cook up the morning coffee, and not the decaf kind
I don’t care what brand’s on hand as long as it satisfies
For to percolate right after playing all night
And keep the cobwebs from my mind
It seems to be it’ll have to be that high test blend of mine
CHORUS
Two more cups of coffee, and I’ll be good to go
Put on another pot of that mud, in hopes that I might know
How to find a way to start my day and go where I need to go
Two more cups of coffee and I’ll be good to go
VERSE TWO
Some folks always ruin the taste by doctoring with sugar and cream
Or add some new-fangled flavor they’ve found
Like nothing I’ve ever seen
Special moments for me can simply be poured up from an old tin can
So make mine straight, stout and black and as strong as you can stand
CHORUS
VERSE THREE
Some folks say if you drink too much
It might be bad for you
But Doc won’t leave the house for work without he has a cup or two
It keeps you alert, helps the brain, and circulation too
So pour me up more java mama and I’ll be good as new
Dr. B (BMI)
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Dr. Tom Bibey: Stories of the Bluegrass Music Road 
February 15, 2009 at 12:16 am
This could be my theme song. You, sir, are a musical genius, a gentleman, and a scholar.
February 15, 2009 at 12:22 am
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February 15, 2009 at 12:51 am
keep breathing,
Respiratory therapists, like country docs, firefighters, EMS folks, and bluegrass musicians work off adrenaline about half the time. I guess that is why so many in our crowd love coffee so.
Dr. B
February 15, 2009 at 7:02 am
Waiting for mine to “perk” up and to “perk” me up right now. Hope you and your beautiful wife had a happy Valentine’s day. Romance is what you make it!
February 15, 2009 at 8:02 am
Ms. Cindy,
We had a great time. Gonna post one more time on the event this am.
My wife was with me at one jam session, and some fellow said, “Son, you punted way past your coverage when you married that girl.” I love that one; bluegrass folks make for great quotes.
Dr. B
February 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm
GOOD MAN! Ah, Dr. B, you set my heart a-singing and a-strumming with these simple lyrics. Coffee is incredible, it’s perfection made into drink, it’s… ok, I’ll stop now. But seriously, I could HEAR the bluegrass in those lyrics.
February 15, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Dr B, I love the lyrics, I used to date a Blues musician , I would help him with lyrics, Those were some good ole days, and some great fun. Thank you for the Great Coffee Song, I could hear the music as I read it. Now I think I will drink a cup in your honor.
February 15, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Just an RT,
Cool. Coffee and music always help ease the blues for me. Put some to percolating, get out a guitar and sing a few lines. It does have a blues feel to it.
Dr. B
February 16, 2009 at 5:50 am
Dr.B what my friend and I would do, is he would write the blues Music, and play it for me, I have been a poet for a number of years, Published even. Hallmark loves my work. So he would play, and I would come up with the lyrics, But it was something I could never ever do without my cup of Java at my side. He still plays, I still love to listen. And after all this time, we are still great friends.
February 16, 2009 at 6:56 am
Just an RT,
Collaboration is what makes the world go round, huh?
I have co-written a few published tunes too. In most of them I wrote the lyrics and a rough melody, then gave the artist the freedom to change things around. Most of the words would stay intact with some changes for phrasing preferences etc, and the melody often changed a lot.
Like writing books, it is not a way to get rich, but it sure has been fun.
Hallmark is high cotton kid, way to go.
Dr. B
February 16, 2009 at 8:32 am
Dr B.. I’ve been writing for Hallmark for over 20+ years, I don’t do it as much as I used to. I submit what I think they like, either they like them or they don’t. I also write for a smaller card company, Not as well known. Its something that I do to relieve stress. I’m also a painter, a poet, a sculptor, some of these talents I have passed on to my sons. My oldest 27 and in the Marines. has no interest in the arts, My 26 yr old son is extremely talented.
February 16, 2009 at 8:50 am
RT,
You are into the arts for the same reason I am. As a Family Doc, you get close to your patients, and bad things happen to them. I deal with it through music and writing.
I am sure it is the same way for an RT. Especially if you work in a small town, you see a lot of people over and over like some of the chronic lung patients, and it always hurts to lose them.
Dr. B
February 16, 2009 at 10:30 am
Dr B. You nailed that one on the head. There is nothing worse then losing a patient that you have worked with for a long time, or even worse losing a young patient. That one hits to close to home. I do artistic work to do something that is totally different from my job.. where death is not part of my work, only joy, Where is see smiles instead of tears, and the only tears are when I give my customers a portrait that totally has captured the real them. Rewards in both worlds.
February 16, 2009 at 10:51 am
RT,
As I am sure you have heard along the way, there is an old saying in music (and writing) about keeping your day job. That is what art does for me. Because of it, I can keep my sanity, and my day job, and I hope it makes me a better Doc.
I was almost too sensitve to be a doctor, and art keeps me in the Doc business. In fiction I can create a world where we try to treat all people with grace and dignity. In the real world, as I am sure you have seen in your travels, I am sad to say it is not always that way.
But as I say in my writing, a man has to have his dreams…. Maybe as artists we can change at least a small corner of the world.
Dr. B
February 16, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Oh Doc I do That in the sculptors that I create, the paintings that I do, the poetry that I write, As for giving up my day job…. One will always have what the other does not have. Its creates an even balance in my world. I do in art what I can not do in the real world, I can create in art a perfect piece.. where in the real world.. work place we know there is no such thing. I am happy in both of my jobs, One balances the other and there is Coffee in both LOL One can not live with on art work with out having the smooth rich taste of a good cup of coffee at hand. I Like my coffee like I like my man, rich .hot.. smooth and always there when I want it LAMO
February 16, 2009 at 3:22 pm
oops that should be LMAO its time for coffee can you tell LOL
February 16, 2009 at 3:42 pm
RT,
Balance is indeed the ticket. For me it was 80% Doc and 20% artist. That kept me on an even keel. If it got out either way I did not do as well.
And too, without coffee I wouldn’t be able to keep it right at all.
Dr. B
February 17, 2009 at 6:33 am
See Doc for me I am lucky for me, I’m 50% artist 50% RT I work a week off a week I love my schedule, the week I am at work, I have lots of stress and no down time, If I am lucky I might be able to finish my first cup of coffee by the end of the day. At Home, I have a pot on from the time I get up at Oh dark thirty in the morning til I go to bed at night. I have never been one to sleep in, even on my days off. Maybe that is why I stay so young. who knows, it works for me. My old saying, if its not broke…. Don’t fix it.
take Care been nice Chatting with you
February 17, 2009 at 6:43 am
RT,
The cool thing about the blog is like minds end up exchanging ideas.
When I started my blog I told my agent I was going to try to find the folks who lived a life of grace and dignity. Sure enough, that is what happened.
I hope you’ll come back and visit again. I’m gonna check out your site too.
Dr. B
February 17, 2009 at 10:32 am
Its really nice to be able to talk to people from all over, share ideas, get fresh ideas, bounce some also, That works in the medical profession, but not in my artistic part of my life. Since that is not what my book is about. But I am really glad that I found your song, I did have to print it out to put on my locker at work. It will sit there along with my picture of a cat that says “without my morning coffee I might as well be a dog” I Love that its just too cute.
Take care
With great Admiration I remain
February 17, 2009 at 10:39 am
RT,
Keep at it, it’s the good folks that make this old world tolerable.
Look for old Dr. B in a book store someday. I hope to get my book out by late 2009, and my wife and I plan some short tours to support it.
Dr. B
April 20, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Hi nice blog 🙂 I can see a lot of effort has been put in.
April 21, 2009 at 8:42 am
Ms. Katie,
Thanks so much. Hope you’ll come back and visit again.
Dr. B