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Single:
Released in 1957, A Pub With No Beer entered the Australian singles chart* on 11 January 1958 and peaked at #1. It was #10 on the Top 100 of 1958.
Songwriter:
Gordon Parsons
Record labels of Australian release:
Regal Zonophone, Columbia
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS SONGS BELOW – Slim Dusty’s follow-up songs: The Answer to A Pub With No Beer and Sequel to A Pub With No Beer
Wikipedia:
Gordon Parsons wrote and arranged A Pub With No Beer about his local pub at Taylors Arm, New South Wales, adapted from Irish poet Dan Sheahan’s original poem A Pub Without Beer about the Day Dawn Hotel in Ingham, North Queensland, now known as Lees Hotel. The song gently explores the “devastation” caused to a pub and its community when its beer supply is interrupted.
The song was first performed in public by Gordon Parsons in 1954 at the 50th birthday of George Thomas, a resident of Creek Ridge Road, Glossodia (near Windsor in Sydney). It was performed with an extra verse that was dropped from Slim Dusty’s 1957 recording because it contained elements of blue humour.
Slim’s version was released in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The song was also popular in Ontario, Canada, following a strike by brewery workers in 1958.
In 1964, Benny Barnes from Texas Americanised the lyrics to Bar with No Beer.
A version was also recorded by Belgian entertainer Bobbejaan Schoepen, which was released in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
A Pub With No Beer has since been recorded by many other Australian and overseas artists.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pub_with_No_Beer
Lyrics:
Oh it’s-a lonesome away from your kindred and all
By the campfire at night, we’ll hear the wild dingoes call
But there’s-a nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear
Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer
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BONUS
The Answer to A Pub With No Beer
The Answer to A Pub With No Beer entered the Australian singles chart* on 24 May 1958 and peaked at #12. It was #73 on the Top 100 of 1958.
Sequel to A Pub With No Beer
Sequel to A Pub With No Beer entered the Australian singles chart* on 22 November 1958 and peaked at #23.
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