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