Pub With No Beer Lyrics - Singles - Dubliners

It's lonesome away from your kindered and all 

By the campfire at night where the wild Dingos call 

But there's nothin' so lonesome, so dull or so drear 

Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer 

Now the Publican's anxious for the quota to come 

There's a faraway look on the face of the bum 

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

What a terrible place is a pub with no beer 

The stock man rides up with his dry, dusty throat 

He breasts up till the bar, pulls a wad from his coat 

But the smile on his face quickly turns to a sneer 

When the barman says suddenly, "The pub's got no beer" 

There's a dog on the verandah, for his master he waits 

But the boss is inside drinking wine with his mates 

He hurries for cover and he cringes in fear 

It's no place for a dog round a pub with no beer 

Old Billy, the blacksmith, the first time in his life 

Has gone home cold sober to his darling wife 

He walks in the kitchen, she says, "You're early, me dear" 

Then he breaks down and he tells her that the pub's got no beer 

It's lonesome away from your kindered and all 

By the campfire at night where the wild Dingos call 

But there's nothin' so lonesome, so dull or so drear 

Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer