Serious Stuff Standing At The Bar Of The Pub With No Beer
I must admit that I have tended to take a lot of what has been written about global warming with a grain of salt at times, but now things are getting serious!
I don’t know if climate change is due to human activity, and can understand what some say about previous weather cycles, and the whole thing being part of nature.
Then again, we have been polluting the planet quite heavily these past few hundred years, and it must have some effect, right?
After today’s events, I think that I may have become an eco warrior, it looks like we need to change our ways, and fast!
What happened today? Well, I was just thinking about grabbing a cold one that I had put on ice earlier, and read a report from News Ltd that global warming would affect beer supplies!
Talk about hitting a fellow where it hurts when it comes to taking action on the environment!
Apparently global warming will affect the supply and taste of beer.
Friends, this is shattering news, and can only be compared with the trauma of being forced to drink English beer – warm English beer!
The news is so bad, that they reckon that we’ll be lining up at the bar of a pub with no beer!
About The Pub With No Beer!
Right: Slim Dusty
Originally written as ‘A Pub Without Beer’ by Dan Sheehan, an Irish cane cutter from Ingham, North Queensland in 1943, the song tells the story of the time a group of soldiers drank the pub dry during World War 2.
Because of war time rationing, there was a delay in replenishing supplies.
Rewritten and named the ‘Pub With No Beer’ by Gordon Parsons, the song was recorded by Australian country singer Slim Dusty in 1957.
The song was a Number 1 best seller for Slim Dusty, as well as being recorded by other artists including Johnny Cash and Tom T Hall.
Translated into Dutch and German, the song was also a hit in Europe, remaining in the German charts for 30 weeks.
Slim Dusty’s version of the song had the distinction of being the biggest selling Australian record to that time, and the first to go gold.
Slim Dusty was working on his 106th album, “Columbia Lane – the Last Sessions”, at the time of his death in 2003. When it was released in 2004, it made its debut at number five on the Australian charts and went ‘gold’ within two weeks of its release.
Video: The Pub With No Beer.
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The Pub With No Beer Lyrics.
Oh it’s lonesome away from your kindred 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 stockman rides up with his dry, dusty throat
He breasts up to 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!”
Then in comes the swagman, all covered with flies
He throws down his roll, wipes the sweat from his eyes
But when he is told he says, “What’s this I hear?
I’ve trudged fifty flamin’ miles to a pub with 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, Bill dear”
Then he breaks down and he tells her that the pub’s got no beer
So it’s lonesome away from your kindred 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
Of course, beer is serious business…
As this Speights advertisement from New Zealand shows…
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