Instant Coffee Blues chords by
Guy Clark

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Key: G major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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He washed all the road dirt
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from his face and from his neck
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And sat down at her table and
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she picked up his check.
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And she took him home for reasons
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that she did not understand.
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And him, he had the answers
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A A 
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but did not play his hand.
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For him he knew the taste
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of this wine very well.
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It all goes down so easily but the
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G G 
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next day is hell.
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Verse 2
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Morning - "Man was I drunk,"
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she wispered in the shower.
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While he lay there and smoked his way
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there through the final hour.
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And she felt wholly empty like she'd
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felt it every time.
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And he was feelin' just the same,
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'cept he was tryin' to make it rhyme.
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Time was of the essence so
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they both did their best,
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To meet up in the kitchen
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feelin fully dressed.
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She just had to go to work,
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and he just had to go.
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And she knew where and he knew
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how to blow it off and so.
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They

Verse 3

shot the breeze quite cavalier

to the boilin' of the pot.

And sang the Instant Coffee Blues

and never fired a shot.

Verse 4
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And him he hit the driveway
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D D 
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with his feelin's in a case.
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And her she hit the stoplight
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G G 
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and touched up her face.
So you tell them the difference
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between caring and not.
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And that it's all done with mirrors,
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lest they forgot.
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I said

Verse 5

it's all done with mirrors,

of which they have none.

To blend the instant coffee blues

into the morning sun

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