LONELY BOY - Andrew Gold
Intro:
A/C# - D - E/G# - A 4x
A/C# D
He was born on a sum- mer day,
E/G# A A/C# - D - E/G# -
nineteen- fifty- one
A A/C#
And with the slap of a hand
D E/G# A A/C# -
D - E/G# - A
He had land- ed as an on- ly son
F#m E6
His mother and father said "what a lovely boy
Dmaj7 E6
We'll teach him what we learned, ah yes, just what we learned,
F#m E6
We'll dress him up warmly and we'll send him to school
Dmaj7 C#7sus4 C#7
It'll teach him how to fight to be nobody's fool"
Chorus:
D G#m7 C#m7 Am/F#
Oh, oh, what a lonely boy
B7sus4 B7 D
Oh, what a lonely boy
Esus4 E
Oh, what a lonely boy
A/C# - D - E/G# - A - A/C# - D -
E/G# - A
A/C# D E/G#
In the sum- mer of fif- ty- three his mother,
A A/C# D - E/G# -
brought him a sis- ter
A A/C# D
And she told him "we must attend to her needs
E/G# A A/C# - D -
E/G# - A
She's so much youn- ger than you"
F#m E6
Well, he ran down the hall and he cried
Dmaj7 E6
Oh, how could his parents have lied
F#m E6
When they said he was an only son
Dmaj7 C#7sus4 C#7
He thought he was the only one
Chorus:
D G#m7 C#m7 Am/F#
Oh, oh, what a lonely boy
B7sus4 B7 D
Oh, what a lonely boy
Esus4 E
Oh, what a lonely boy
Break:
A/C# - D - E* - F#m* - 4x
Dsus2 - F#m7 - 2x
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/a/andrew_gold/lonely_boy_crd_ver_2.html ]
Dsus2 F#m7 Dsus2 F#m7
Goodbye mama, goodbye you,
Dsus2 F#m7
goodbye papa, I'm pushin' on through
Dsus2 - F#m7 - B/
A|0-------|
E|--4-2-0-|
D
G#m7 - C#m7 - Am/F# - B7sus4 - B7 -
D - Esus4 -
A/C# - D - E/G# - A - A/C# - D -
E/G# A A/C# D
He left home on a win- ter day,
E/G# A A/C# - D - E/G# -
nineteen- sixty-nine
A A/C#
And he hoped to find all the love
D E/G# A A/C# -
D - E/G# - A
He had lost in that ear- lier time
F#m E6
Well, his sister grew up,and she married a man
Dmaj7 E6
He gave her a son ah yes, a lovely son
F#m E6
They dressed him up warmly they sent him to school
Dmaj7 C#7sus4 C#7
It taught him how to fight to be nobody's fool
Chorus:
D G#m7 C#m7 Am/F#
Oh, oh, what a lonely boy
B7sus4 B7 D
Oh, what a lonely boy
Esus4 E F#m - F#m/E
Oh, what a lonely boy
D G#m7 C#m7 Am/F#
Oh, oh, what a lonely boy
B7sus4 B7 D
Oh, what a lonely boy
Esus4
Oh, what a lonely boy
outro:
A/C# - D - E/G# - A 3x
A/C# - D - E - A//
A/C# x42220
x42255
x47655
E/G# 422100
422400
476454
F#m 244222
E6 022120
Dmaj7 xx0222
x54222
C#7sus4 x46474
C#7 x46464
G#m7 4x44x2
C#m7 x46454
Am/F# 202210
B7sus4 x24252
B7 x24242
Esus4 022200
E* xx2454
xxx454
F#m* xxx576
Dsus2 xx0230
F#m7 242222
F#m/E 044222
I hoped the tab would be playable, but it’s a piano song really, so it’s though. If you
play the bass note separately, the position of the chords is pretty much as above. This
way you get the upbeat effect.
