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1rosie_lea
Jan 5, 2012, 2:32 am

I'm looking to put together a playlist of songs that feature tea and tea drinking in them. Anyone have any ideas?

(hi, i'm new. I like traditional chai and just plain black tea, both with milk :) )

2krolik
Jan 5, 2012, 4:44 am

To mention a few:

The Beatles: "Lovely Rita" (playful)
Cat Stevens: "Tea for the Tillerman" (ponderous)
The Rolling Stones: "Let it Bleed" (raunchy)
Leonard Cohen: "Suzanne" (wistful)

3tardis
Jan 5, 2012, 11:23 am

"Tea for Two" - no idea of the artist or where it came from. Old, though.

4alaudacorax
Jan 5, 2012, 11:42 am

#2 - Regarding Leonard Cohen's 'Suzanne', I'm a fanatic about tea but I've always thought oranges go better with strong, black coffee.

Back to the OP - try this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE5IfIkl_oA

5staffordcastle
Jan 5, 2012, 4:20 pm

Then there's this one, which is brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA

6tardis
Jan 5, 2012, 4:44 pm

5> Oh, yes, my son made me watch that one a while back - love it :) -especially the part "Herbal - no thanks!"

7karhne
Jan 5, 2012, 4:47 pm

Tea in the Sahara by the Police was the first thing that popped into my mind.
And then, there's the song with Ed Wynn From Mary Poppins where they're having tea on the ceiling.

8staffordcastle
Jan 5, 2012, 7:37 pm

I wonder what you'd get if you put "tea" in as a search term in iTunes. Hmmm, I should try that. I don't know if it would limit the string, or whether you'd get things with "team" or "teal" in the title.

9gmathis
Jan 6, 2012, 2:27 pm

"When I Take My Sugar to Tea" (Leon Redbone's version) is a personal favorite.

10dtw42
Jan 6, 2012, 5:05 pm

>8 staffordcastle:: Yes, seems to actually find "tea" correctly.

11tiegster
Jan 6, 2012, 8:52 pm

>3 tardis: I know that Thelonious Monk does a jazz version of 'tea for two.' I don't know if it's the original version or what...it's only instrumental...no lyrics.

12lilithcat
Jan 6, 2012, 10:03 pm

> 3

It's from a '20s musical, No, no, Nanette, and is by Vincent Youmans (music) and Irving Caesar (lyrics).

13chapeauchin
Jan 7, 2012, 3:53 pm

Cup of Tea by Soulmate. Soulmate is an Indian blues band, from Assam...how fitting then that they should have a song about tea.

14gmathis
Jan 12, 2012, 10:01 am

Just listened to "Another Pot O'Tea" by Emmylou Harris.

15CliffordDorset
Jan 13, 2012, 7:09 am

>3 tardis:

Dmitri Shostakovich did a version of 'Tea for Two', called 'Tahiti Trot'. It's superb - don't be put off by DS being 20th Century!

>4 alaudacorax:

I've always thought that Cohen's ' ... feeds me tea and oranges that come all the way from China ... ' was a reference to orange pekoe tea, even though this tea has nothing whatever to do with oranges, this being a common misconception.

16nebensonnen
Fév 9, 2012, 7:55 am

Kula Shaker - Drink tea (for the love of god)

17quartzite
Fév 9, 2012, 10:00 pm

No Rain by Blind Melon

Has lyrics

All I can do is pour some tea for two, and speak my point of view, but it's not sane.

also

All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.

18halo_star
Juil 23, 2012, 1:44 pm

Madness - "Time for Tea"

20Booksloth
Juil 31, 2012, 5:29 am

Going back to my hippy youth - "Another Day" by Roy Harper.

21andyl
Juil 31, 2012, 5:48 am

Gong's Flying Teapot.


Have a cup of tea, have another one, have a cup of tea
Have a cup of tea, have another one, have a cup of tea
Have a cup of tea, have another one, have a cup of tea...

High in the sky, what do you see ?
Come down to Earth, a cup of tea
Flying saucer, flying teacup
From outer space, Flying Teapot

22Teacup_
Juil 31, 2012, 8:32 pm

Does Mary Poppin's "Just a Spoon Full of Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down" qualify?

Tea aint tea without a spoon full of sugar (even though ironically i never take mine with any sugar) but the spoon has to be there... it just has to has to has to.

23rabbitprincess
Août 1, 2012, 1:16 am

"English Tea", by Paul McCartney (off his 2005 solo album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard).