Guilty Pleasures

Coffee, Computers, and Song

© 1991 Stephen Savitzky. CC-by-nc-sa.

This was actually written in realtime--I finished it at about 2am after everyone else had gone to bed.

Recordings:

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	D	Dsus2	D
Now the	wife has gone out for the	eveni	ng;

	G	A	D
The	kid's fast asleep in	her	bed;

	G	D
I	head for the back room,	turn out the lights,

	A7	D
New i	deas racing into my	head.

	D5	D	G
And I	know that I ought to	be	stronger,

	D	A7
And I	know that it just ain't	right,

	D	G
But my	guilty pleasures are	calling

	D	A7	D
And it's	gonna be a	long dark	night!

G(D\up5)

I have guilty pleasures and

D5

back-room treasures

D A7 D

To keep me happy all night long

G

The devil take wine,

D

loose women and crime

A7 D

Give me coffee, computers and song!

inst. break

G(D\up5) G5 G D5 D A7 D G D5 D A7 D

Now some men fancy loose women

that they pick up in sleazy old bars;

Some find escape in the juice of the grape,

Some go racing in stolen fast cars.

But just give me a tape of old folksongs,

Black coffee as strong as it gets,

A hot CPU and a program or two

And a fast line onto the nets.

There's a two-meg stack of fresh net-news,

Some mail that I ought to reply

The last chunk came in this evening

Of a game I've been meaning to try.

Then maybe a round of debugging

There's always something else wrong,

If I don't fall asleep at the keyboard,

I might just write a new song.

Well the wife went to bed around midnight;

The kid'll be up before dawn.

I might crash at my desk about lunch-time,

But for now I'll just keep hackin' on.

Now some men fall for fast women,

for other the bottle's a curse;

For me it's hot coffee and hacking,

And I can't tell you which one is worse.

	G(D\up5) A(D\up7) D(A*\up6)

This song actually was written in realtime somewhere between midnight and 3am.

Whistle works well on this one.