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(15 replies, posted in Song requests)

jamiejah wrote:

well just tried that malarkey looking up "pub with no beer" all i got here was pup and a whole list of p,,,,,,,,,,,s
crikey there is nae pub on this site lol
right... up yer kilt and no nay never to you and aw
can you kindly give the chords and the lyrics  to this worls famous song
who is it by bye the way

The song was made famous in the 1957 recording by the late Slim Dusty , but was  written in the original "Day Dawn Hotel" in Ingham in north Queensland (Australia) in 1943 by an Irish cane cutter Dan Sheahan after some American soldiers had drank the pub dry.

Dan Sheahan had gone to his favourite pub for a cold beer but the Publican told him that there was no beer left thanks to some  American soldiers going on a drinking binge there the night before. Dan Sheahan sat in the corner of the pub with a glass of wine and wrote "A Pub without Beer". The song was later transformed to "A Pub with No Beer" by composer Gordon Parsons, who had spotted the words of "A Pub without Beer" in "The North Queensland Register" newspaper, and later recorded by Slim Dusty.

There's a bit of trivia for you to dazzle the punters with this St Pats day!