A Pub With No Beer chords by
Slim Dusty

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Key: Db major

Intro 1

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C

Verse 1
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Oh, lonesome away
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from your kindred and all
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By the campfire at night,
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we'll hear the wild dingoes call
But there's-a nothing so lonesome,
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morbid or drear
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Than to stand in the bar,
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of a pub with no beer
Now the publican's anxious,
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for the quota to come
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And there's a faraway look,
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on the face of the bum
The maid's gone all cranky,
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and the cook's acting queer
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C C 
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Oh, what a terrible place is a pub with no beer

Verse 2
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Then the stockman rides up,
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with his dry dusty throat
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He breasts up to the bar,
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and pulls a wad from his coat
But the smile on his face,
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quickly turns to a sneer
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As the barman said sadly,
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the pubs got no beer
Then the swaggie comes in,
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smothered in dust and flies
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He throws down his roll
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and rubs the sweat from his eyes
But when he is told,
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he says, "What's this I hear?
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I've trudged fifty flamin' miles
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to a pub with no beer"

Verse 3
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Now there's a dog on the v'randah,
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for his master he waits
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But the boss is inside,
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drinking wine with his mates
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He hurries for cover and he cringes in fear
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It's no place for a dog,
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round a pub with no beer
And old Billy the blacksmith,
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the first time in his life
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Why he's gone home cold sober,
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to his darling wife
He walks in the kitchen,
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she says "You're early, Bill dear"
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But then he breaks down and tells her,
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the pubs got no beer

Verse 4
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Oh, it's hard to believe
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that there's customers still
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But the money's still tinkling
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in the old ancient till
The wine dots are happy
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and I know they're sincere
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When they say they don't care
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if the pub's got no beer

Outro 1
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So it's-a lonesome away
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from your kindred and all
G G 
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By the campfire at night,
C C 
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we'll hear the wild dingoes call
But there's-a nothing so lonesome,
F F 
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morbid or drear
G G 
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Than to stand in the bar
C C 
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of that pub with no beer
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C C 
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