Lyrics

BLUE CUP OF COFFEE
by BILL BEACH

It's a blue cup of coffee, On my red letter day
I'm stuck in Chillicothe Till it safe to come your way
All I wanted for my birthday was to solve this mystery
But it seems we only find our way retrospectively

I plead the fifth,I plead the 1st, I plead insanity
If I had thought I would've not called down this curse on me


It's a blue cup of coffee
They serve you in this town
My waitress she looked straight at me
And turned right back around

I guess she's heard it all before
And lived some of it too
And if she hears it one time more
She fears what she might do


She'd plead the fifth,
plead the 1st, plead insanity
If she had thought she would've not
Sit down and talk with me

It's a blue cup of coffee
That my darling's sippin on
It's a blue cup of coffee
But her tears have come and gone

She'd let her phone ring off the hook
If there still were such a thing
She's closed my chapter in her book
And sold her wedding ring


She'd plead the fifth,
plead the 1st, plead insanity
If she had thought she would've not
Ever had married me

Actually
I think she thought
What she meant to say
I wish I knew yesterday
What I know today