Tom T Hall - A Bar With No Beer lyrics

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The beachcomber works by the ocean all day

He gets what the tourists and the sea throw away

He's hot and he's thristy and the words hurt his ears

When they tell him he stopped in a bar with no beer

It's lonesome away from your kinfolks at home

By the campfires at night where the buffalo roam

But there's nothin' so lonesome, so morbid or drear

Then to sit on a stool in a bar with no beer

There's a dog on the sidewalk for his master he waits

But his boss is inside drinkin' wine with his mates

He hurries for cover and cringes in fear

Ain't no place for a dog 'round a bar with no beer

Now Billy the barfly, first time in his life

He went home cold sober to his lovin' wife

He walks in the kitchen, she says, you're early, my dear

He breaks down and tells her, the bar's got no beer

The owner is anxious for the beer man to come

There's a far away look on the face of the bum

The waitress is cranky, she says, it's lonely in here

What a terrible place is a bar with no beer

Well, I've had me some trouble, I've had me some pain

Been locked up in the cold and left out in the rain

I fought with the law but there's one thing I fear

To get stuck in a town in a bar with no beer