G                             C
The beach comber works by the ocean all day

   D7                                       G
He gets what the tourists and the sea throw away

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

          D7                                     G
When they tell him he's stopped in a bar with no beer


G                                 C
It's lonesome away from your kin folks at home

       D7                                   G
By the campfires at night where the buffalo roam

G                                  C
But there's nothing so lonesome so morbid or drear

        D7                              G
Than to sit on a stool in a bar with no beer


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

        D7                                    G
But his boss is inside drinking wine with his mate

G                        C
He hurries for cover and cringes in fear

         D7                                  G
Ain't no place for a dog round a bar with no beer


G                           C
Now Billy the barfly first time in his life

        D7                            G
He went home cold sober to his loving wife

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

          D7                                  G
He breaks down and tells her the bar's got no beer


G                            C
The owner is anxious for the beer man to come

          D7                               G
There's a far away look on the face of the bum

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

       D7                              G
What a terrible place is a bar with no beer


G                                  C
Well I've had me some trouble I've had me some pain

            D7                                 G
Been locked up in the cold and left out in the rain

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

       D7                               G
To get stuck in a town in a bar with no beer