Ain't Even Had My Coffee Yet Lyrics

Rooster's in the henhouse with his feathers all mussed

The hay-barn is burning and the milk's gone sour

It's harvesting time but the whole crop's a bust

And that's the third thunderstrike I've heard in the past half-hour

Been up for three days in a drippin cold-sweat

I called for a doctor and they sent me a vet

I'm losing my livelihood along with a bet

And I ain't even had my coffee yet

The ship's hit an ice-berg and the radio's down

The captain's in the crow's nest trying to get drunk

Nero's somewhere fiddling, and we're all gonna drown

Somebody send an S.O.S.—we're sunk

Throw out your preservers, cast wide your net

We gonna need all the mother-lovin luck that we can get

We're in the middle of nowhere, and I'm all wet

And I ain't even had my coffee yet

Private detective's in his best disguise

He's already taken a few incriminating photographs

He's got the evidence to prove whatever the defendant denies

He caught the guy with his secretary, takin a bath

A lady pulls up in her ex-husband's corvette

As the private I.'s lighting his last cigarette

She asks if it's done—he says, "We're all set

And I ain't even had my coffee yet"

Productivity's down, and the factory's pinched

Management doesn't know what to do

The union fellas won't surrender an inch

And the strike ain't nowhere near being through

The thing to remember is that no-one forgets

If it's a do-or-die matter, I say Let's

Every time I answer the phone, it's a brand new threat

And I ain't even had my coffee yet

Alarm clock went off first thing in the morning

Didn't even get the paper before I heard the news

Neighbors were outside in their bathrobes quarreling

Election's over and half the nation's singing the blues

Sweep the confetti from your TV sets

Better call up your friends and forgive them their debts

The sun's barely up, I'm full of regrets

And I ain't even had my coffee yet