"Coffee Homeground"
By Kate Bush
From 1978's "Lionheart"


Intro:   Cb     A     Gb     Gbmaj7


Bbm                Gb
Down in the cellar

Ebm                  F                     F     
You're getting into making poison.

Ab                             Db               Gb  
You slipped some on the side, 

                Bbm       A
Into my glass of wine,

           Gb                A    F             Bbm 
And I don't want any coffee--homeground.

                      Gb
Offer me a chocolate, 

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        No thanks you spoil my diet, know your game!

Ab          Db      
Tell me just how come 

Gb                    Bbm            A
They smell of bitter almonds? 

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It's a no-no to your coffee homeground.

(Refrain)

A                  B
Pictures of Crippin

Bdim       B 
Lipstick-smeared.

A               B 
Torn wallpaper. 

Bdim                         B   G#    Bb
Have the walls got ears here?

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You won't get me with your belladonna--in the coffee,

                Ebm                                  Fm7      Gb           Db     Cb 
And you won't get me with your arsenic--in the pot of tea,

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And you won't get me in a hole to rot--with your hemlock

Abm     Eb 
On the rocks.

(Repeat verse and refrain)

Where are the plumbers 
Who went a-missing here on Monday? 
There was a tall man 
With his companion, 
And I bet you gave them coffee--homeground.

Maybe you're lonely, 
And only want a little company, 
But keep your recipes 
For the rats to eat, 
And may they rest in peace with coffee homeground.

Well, you won't get me with your Belladonna--in the coffee, 
And you won't get me with your arsenic--in the pot of tea, 
And you won't put me in a six-foot plot--with your hemlock 
On the rocks.


(Refrain)


You won't get me with your Belladonna--in the coffee, 
And you won't get me with your arsenic--in the pot of tea, 
And you won't get me in a hole to rot--with your hemlock 
On the rocks.

With your hemlock on the rocks. 
"Noch ein Glas, mein Liebchen?"
With your hemlock on the rocks. 
"Es schmeckt wunderbahr!"*
With your hemlock on the rocks. 
"Und ???"