"Apparently, before the age of the internet, drinking coffee was what people did while waiting for their lover to come home. Ella Mae Morse’s 1953 song 40 Cups Of Coffee describes sitting up all night drinking cup after cup and wondering where he could be."
"Unlike Ella Fitzgerald’s track, however, Morse’s has a happy ending—sort of. The singer’s man finally comes home at a quarter to five in the morning. At least that coffee will give her energy for the massive fight they’ll have."