BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE

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Song Title
BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE
Writers
Deforest
Publisher
FOLKWAYS MUSIC PUBLISHERS, INC. (BMI)
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
WORLD
Themes/Keywords
Cafe, Dawn, Heart, Laughter, Lonely, Midnight, Music, Night, Playing games, Sad, Stranger
Lyrics
Midnight to lonely midnight, each night until dawn,
The sad set, “Look what I had set”,
Their hearts set they just go on.
They try to hard or else they cry too hard,
Or else they play too hard their blind man’s game.
Some are clever and some are never, whichever, it’s all the same.

Refrain:
Music playing, loud and blue,
Telling, selling nothing new.
The lyrics sing the drama of a story old as life and love,
The Ballad Of The Sad Café.
People laughing all around,
There’s no laughter in the sound,
A little proud and none too wise,
The story’s there within their eyes,
The Ballad Of the Sad Café.
A lonely cover station in the corner, a mourner and her memory.
Two strangers on a chance, pretending new romance
To masquerade their need for sympathy.
Keep that new day from the door,
Fill that glass up just once more.
But time has said the party’s thru,
So add another chapter to the Ballad of the Sad Café
The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe

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