(Intro) G G C G G D G
(Chorus)
G C G
When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in,
G D
I'd rather be here then go home...
G C G G D G
Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone.
(Verse)
G C G
Mary my bride, she was just seventeen,
G D
Her parents they didn't approve...
G C G G D G
Her mom was a bitch 'cause I wasn't rich and they sent her to boarding school.
G C G
When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in,
G D
I'd rather be here then go home...
G C G G D G
Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone.
(Verse)
G C G
Lost my true love, 'twas a family affair,
G D
What was a poor lad to do?...
G C G D G
I asked for her hand not her Dad's plan and that's why I sit on this stool.
G C G
When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in,
G D
I'd rather be here then go home...
G C G G D G
Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone.
(Verse)
(Slower, single strum)
G C G
She wrote me a letter, then knitted a sweater,
G D
The note it read "Good luck"...
(Faster, regular strum)
G C G
But a tear in my beer, the ink it did smear
D G
And that's why I'm better off drunk.
G C G
When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in,
G D
I'd rather be here then go home...
G C G G D G
Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone.
(Repeat Chorus 2x, last time a capella sing along)