Johann Sebastian Bach's Coffee Cantata

"Dear father, do not be so strict!  If I can’t have my little demi-tasse of coffee three times a day, I’m just like a dried up piece of roast goat!  Ah!  How sweet coffee tastes!  Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!  I must have my coffee, and if anyone wishes to please me, let him present me with — coffee!"

"Oh, Daddy, don’t be such a drag," a modern librettist translates the cantata.  "If I don’t get my coffee fix three times a day, I’ll die!"

- Lifted from Uncommon Grounds By Mark Pendergrast