Bartender's Secret

'Pumpin Sunshine' by Tammy Brown ©2000 revised©2025

female bartender with reddish hair, nice build, very busy mixing shaker shots from behind bar in a large busy night club

On the weekends,

I’m the first one in.

Turn on the lights,

Set it up right

Everything’s in place

Check my face

Pour a shot,

Down it hot,

So I can be

Who I need be;

A doctor, a lawyer,

A psychiatrist too

Listen to your white lies

Hear all about your life

While scanning the room

And I’m entertaining you

All from behind this bar-

Don’t forget my TIP JAR!

Sunsets, Tequila Sunrise,

No, we don’t have moonshine.

Margarita, Hurricane, Jell-O Shots,

Coffee cold or coffee hot.

Pour a shot, Pass a beer

Tell you what I think

As I mix your drink

Tonight you’ve got

My time for awhile

Just so you realize

I’m just trying to make you smile

You can have a fun time

Out in the dance line.

Sweat it out on the dance floor

At this bar, I’ll mix more

A fresh squeeze of lime

Just like you like

I’m here for you

Give me the news

Or I’ll give you mine

I heard through the grapevine.

You didn’t hear it here,

Pour a shot, Pass a beer

Mix it, shake it, it’s a shot

All my time, is what you’ve got

From behind this bar I’ll smile

And wipe it down with my towel

And I’m pumping sunshine

just to make you smile

But the line I draw is

When I cut you off alcohol.

Closing time, make your way out,

Bar’s closed, I count it out.

All cleaned up, lights off,

Tips you gave, helped pay my way.

Hope you had fun, Thank you.

Buy me a drink? Coffee?