Bar With No Beer

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 or 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 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