Slim Dusty – A Pub With No Beer (Guitar)

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Use this version of the song, so that the strumming pattern tempo is right Original version is slower, otherwise there doesn't seem to be any difference. Each chord goes for 2 bars (6 beats) except the G* and C* which go for 1 bar each (3 beats) Between verses, the C can be strummed at length as desired [Verse 1]
         C                       F
Oh, it's lonesome away from your kindred and all

       G                           G*           C
By the campfire at night where the wild dingoes call

            C                    F
But there's nothin' so lonesome, morbid or drear

        G                     G*          C
Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer
[Verse 2]
        C                          F
Now the publican's anxious for the quota to come

              G                   G*          C*
And there's a faraway look on the face of the bum

    C                              F
The maid's gone all cranky and the cook's acting queer

       G                   G*          C
What a terrible place is a pub with no beer
[Verse 3]
         C                          F
Then the stockman rides up with his dry, dusty throat

           G                         G*           C
He breasts up to the bar and pulls a wad from his coat

        C                         F
But the smile on his face quickly turns to a sneer

       G                       G*           C
As the barman says sadly, "The pub's got no beer"
[Verse 4]
         C                           F
Then the swaggie comes in, smothered in dust and flies

   G                                 G*             C
He throws down his roll and rubs the sweat from his eyes

    C                         F
But when he is told he says, "What's this I hear?

             G                        G*          C
I've trudged fifty flamin' miles to a pub with no beer!"
[Verse 5]
              C                            F
Now there's a dog on the v'randah, for his master he waits

        G                       G*            C
But the boss is inside drinking wine with his mates

   C                        F
He hurries for cover and he cringes in fear

        G                       G*          C
It's no place for a dog round a pub with no beer
[Verse 6]
        C                                F
And old Billy, the blacksmith, the first time in his life

          G                       G*          C
Why, he's gone home cold sober to his darling wife

   C                                       F
He walks in the kitchen; she says: "You're early, Bill dear"

            G                               G*           C
But then he breaks down and tells her, "The pub's got no beer"
[Verse 7]
         C                             F
Oh, it's hard to believe, that there's customers still

        G                             G*          C
But the money's still tinkling in the old ancient till

    C                         F
The wine dots are happy and I know they're sincere

          G                          G*           C
When they say they don't care if the pub's got no beer
[Verse 1] (repeat)
        C                       F
So it's lonesome away from your kindred and all

       G                           G*           C
By the campfire at night where the wild dingoes call

            C                    F
But there's nothin' so lonesome, morbid or drear

        G                        G*          C
Than to stand in the bar of that pub with no beer