Coffee Resistance Song (Michael Gray)
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- Editor: Michael Gray (submitted 2013-01-27). Score information: Letter (landscape), 12 pages, 270 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND
- Edition notes: Actual voicing is Soprano, Mezzo, Alto, Tenor, Bass. Edited for a choir with some soli.
General Information
Title: Coffee Resistance Song
Composer: Michael Gray
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published:
Description: Originally for 5 voices with the Tenor singing most of the melody. Part of a larger collection called "Modern Living"
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Original text and translations
English text
I refuse,
Don’t want it
I refuse,
Don’t need it
I refuse,
Won’t touch it!
I refuse,
Won’t drink it,
I refuse!
You see them brewin’ on the corner
You smell them roastin’ down the street,
At ev’ry hour they’re in there sippin’
You wonder what these people eat!
They’re infiltrating ev’ry stripmall!
And their addiction’s on the rise,
They’re coaxing caffeinated zombies
With beady hypertensive eyes
I refuse
Don’t want it sprinkled on my breakfast.
Get it off my Cheerios
Please don’t inject it in my veins
I’m afraid of needles
I’d like a less addictive habit,
Something in a primary color
that won’t make static of my brains.
Latte, Moccha, Cappuccino,
Breve, Grande, Americano,
Single, Double, Strong espresso,
Red eye, Straight grind,
Don’t want it…
Lift up your mugs and be united
Defend your freedom with one voice!
They say you’ve only got one option,
Call’d my broker yesterday
To pay the market so you win,
Can’t denounce it as a sin!
They say you don’t have to drink it,
Just be a little more creative if you can
rake the money in;
Latte, Moccha, Cappuccino…
Iced and blended,
Foam’d and frothy;
Buy your stocks in cups of coffee!
I refuse,
Won’t drink it.
This is what it is
This is what it means
When ev’rything is said and done
it’s just a hill of beans.
This is what it is
This is what it means
When ev’rything is said and done
it’s just a load of water washin’ thru a hill of beans,
I refuse!