Chord/Tab song: Black Coffee in Bed

Song title: Black Coffee In Bed
Original Album: Sweets From A Stranger

Words and Music by Chris Difford & Glenn Tilbrook
Copyright1982 A&M Records
Published by A&M Records Ltd

Transcribed by Gavin Chart ([email protected]) (www.gartfrets.net)

INTRO:

[play: Guitar Figure 1] [x2]

Guitar Figure 1

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|--------------------------------|-0-------0----------------------|
|----------------------------0h2-|-------------2-----------0------|
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|
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|---------0---0------------------|--------------------------------|
|-0-h-2--------------------------|--------------------------------|
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

VERSE1:
Chords:
D x57775
Bm x24432
[G] [355433]
D Bm G D [Guitar Figure 1]
There's a stain on my notebook where your coffee cup was
D Bm G D [Guitar Figure 1]
And there's ash in the pages, now I've got myself lost
D Bm G D [Guitar Figure 1]
I was writing to tell you that my feelings tonight
D Bm G D [Guitar Figure 1]
Are a stain on my notebook that rings your goodbye.

CHORUS1:
Chords:
Bm x24432 or 799777 A x02220 or 577655
F# x44322 or 244322 D xx0232 or x57775
C#m x46654 G 320033 or 355433

Oh, [Bm]now she's gone, and I'm [F#]back on the beat
A [C#m]stain on my notebook says [A]nothing to me.
Oh, [D]now she's gone and I'm [G]out with a friend (out with a [A]friend)
With[(A)] lips full of passion [G] and coffee in [D]bed

[play Guitar Figure 1] [x2]

VERSE2:
D Bm G D [Guitar Figure 1]
With the way that you left me I could hardly contain
D Bm G D [Guitar Figure 1]
The hurt and the anger and the joy of the pain
D Bm G D [Guitar Figure 1]
Now knowing I am single there'll be fire in my eyes
D Bm G D [Guitar Figure 1]
And a stain on my notebook for a new love tonight

[repeat CHORUS]

[play Guitar Figure 1] [x2]

[Guitar SOLO over: Eb F G A]

Notes:
In the F section, the [ ] is a triple hammer-on played on the second beat.
But, on the 3rd beat, you're already playing the F-note on the 3rd string.
I can't show it any other way without making it look sillier than it probably
already is.

[Eb]

|-------------------------2p0----|---------------------15---------|
|---------------------3-------3--|---------8---11-----------------|
|-------------2---2h4------------|-8------------------------------|
|-----0---2h4--------------------|--------------------------------|
|-0h2----------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

[F]

|-13--11--15--13--11--11p10------|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------13--11-|-10-----[10h11h12h13]-----------|
|--------------------------------|-----------------10--9p8----10p7|
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

[G]

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|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-8h10---------------------------|-------------------------7------|
|---------10--9--8----10-9-8-----|---------7---8-------10---------|
|----------------------------8h9-|-10-----------------------------|
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

[A]

|--------------------------------|-----12----------------------19-|
|-----7-------8---10------12--12-h-14------10--9-------9----------|
|-9------------------------------|-----------------12-------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

[D]

|-17------14p13-12--------12-----|--------------------------------|
|-----15----------14-15----------|--------------------------------|
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

Now she's gone...

CHORUS3:
Chords:
D xx0232 or x57775 A x02220 or 577655
G 320033 or 355433 Bm x24432 or 799777

[D]Now she's gone (now she's gone)
and I'm [G]out with a friend (out with a [A]friend)

With[(A)] lips full of passion [G] and coffee in [D]bed

[play Guitar Figure 1] [x2]

VERSE3:
From l[D]ips without [Bm]passion to the [G]lips with a [D]kiss
There's [D]nothing of your [Bm]love that I'll [G]ever [D]miss
The s[D]tain on my [Bm]notebook remains [G]all that's [D]left
Of the [D]memory of [Bm]late nights and [G]coffee in [D]bed
Of the [D]memory of [Bm]late nights and [G]coffee in [D]bed

[repeat CHORUS1 and ad lib bits from VERSE1 to fade]

"A stain on my notebook..."
"With lips full of passion..."

etc. etc.