Tom T Hall - Bar With No Beer lyrics

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(Tom T. Hall)

The beach comber works by the ocean all day

He gets what the tourists and the sea throw away

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

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

It's lonesome away from your kin folks at home

By the campfires at night where the buffalo roam

But there's nothing so lonesome so morbid and drear

Than 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 drinking wine with his mate

He hurries for cover and cringes in fear

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

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Now Billy the barfly first time in his life

He went home cold sober to his loving 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've fought with the law but there's one thing I fear

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