Coffee Song

Written in 1985 and 1989 / Recorded in 1989, 1990 and 2012

This tune was one of my earliest attempts for writing a composition. It started off with the intro, probably began as a certain mistake of the positioning of my fingers while I was practising on the guitar, and the main body of the tune soon followed to be written somewhere in 1985. At that time, I was not much accustomed to music theory and that enabled me to write a thing in such a way, ironically. Nonetheless, at that time, I didn't think the tune was completed and didn't make any attempt to record it.

After I got used to home recording, by making use of a cheap multi-track-recorder, I decided to make demos of some earlier works I have written but never recorded yet by then. A series of such recording was conducted before or during the summer of 1989, including this tune. At this point, I added a lyric of asking a girl to have a cuppa coffee with me, from which the title was taken.

Shortly before I made this video version, I found another similar home-recorded demo of this tune, which must have been done probably within the first quarter of the following year, 1990. The finding of this lost demo recording encouraged me to make the video of this tune, which also features the intro, newly played live in front of the webcam in 2012.