(Intro)  G  G  C  G  G  D  G 

(Chorus) 
           G                           C            G 
When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in, 
      G                     D 
I'd rather be here then go home... 
 G                    C         G             G       D          G 
Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone. 


(Verse) 
 G                      C          G 
Mary my bride, she was just seventeen, 
      G                    D 
Her parents they didn't approve... 
G                          C         G             G           D          G 
Her mom was a bitch 'cause I wasn't rich and they sent her to boarding school. 



[Refrão]
 
           G                           C            G 
When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in, 
      G                     D 
I'd rather be here then go home... 
 G                    C         G             G       D          G 
Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone. 


(Verse) 
 G                          C        G 
Lost my true love, 'twas a family affair, 
 G                     D 
What was a poor lad to do?... 
    G                 C             G                    D            G 
I asked for her hand not her Dad's plan and that's why I sit on this stool.  



[Refrão]

           G                           C            G 
When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in, 
      G                     D 
I'd rather be here then go home... 
 G                    C         G             G       D          G 
Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone. 


(Verse) 
(Slower, single strum) 
     G                        C         G 
She wrote me a letter, then knitted a sweater, 
     G                  D 
The note it read "Good luck"... 

(Faster, regular strum) 
       G                    C          G  
But a tear in my beer, the ink it did smear 
                     D         G 
And that's why I'm better off drunk. 



[Refrão]

           G                           C            G 
When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in, 
      G                     D 
I'd rather be here then go home... 
 G                    C         G             G       D          G 
Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone. 


(Repeat Chorus 2x, last time a capella sing along)