Lonely Boy chords by Andrew Gold

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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He was born on a summer day
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Nineteen fifty-one
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And with a slap of a hand
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He had landed as an only son
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Pre-chorus 1

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His mother and father said what a lovely boy

We'll teach him what we learned

Ah yes just what we learned

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We'll dress him up warmly and

We'll send him to school

It'll teach him how to fight

To be nobody's fool

Chorus 1

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Oh, oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Interlude 1

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In the summer of fifty-three
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his mother brought him a sister
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And she told him
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we must attend to her needs
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She's so much younger than you
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Pre-chorus 2

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Well he ran down the hall and he cried

Oh how could his parents have lied

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When they said he was an only son

He thought he was the only one

Chorus 2

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Oh, oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Interlude 2

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Solo 1

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Bridge 1
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Goodbye mama, goodbye to you
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Goodbye papa
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I'm   pushing on through
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Interlude 3
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He left

Verse 3
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home on a winter day
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Nineteen sisty-nine
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And he hoped to find all the love
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He had lost
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in that earlier time
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Pre-chorus 3
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Well his sister grew up
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And she married a man
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He gave her a son
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Ah yes a lovely son
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They dressed him up warmly
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They sent him to school
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It taught him how to fight
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To be nobody's fool