Key: A major
Intro 1
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
Verse 1
A/C#
D
He was born on a summer day
E/G#
A
Nineteen fifty-one
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
A/C#
And with a slap of a hand
D
E/G#
A
He had landed as an only son
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
Pre-chorus 1
F#m
C#m/E
His mother and father said what a lovely boy
C#7sus4
C#7
To be nobody's fool
Chorus 1
Dmaj7
G#m7b5
C#m7
Cmaj7#11
Oh, oh what a lonely boy
B7sus4
B7
Dmaj9
Oh what a lonely boy
Interlude 1
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
Verse 2
A/C#
D
In the summer of fifty-three
E/G#
A
his mother brought him a sister
A/C#
D
E/G#
A/C#
D
we must attend to her needs
E/G#
A
She's so much younger than you
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
Pre-chorus 2
F#m
C#m/E
Well he ran down the hall and he cried
Dmaj7
C#m/E
Oh how could his parents have lied
F#m
C#m/E
When they said he was an only son
Dmaj7
C#7sus4
C#7
He thought he was the only one
Chorus 2
Dmaj7
G#m7b5
C#m7
Cmaj7#11
Oh, oh what a lonely boy
B7sus4
B7
Dmaj9
Oh what a lonely boy
Interlude 2
A/C#
D
E
F#m
A/C#
D
E
F#m
A/C#
D
E
F#m
A/C#
D
E
F#m
Solo 1
Dadd9
F#m7
Dadd9
F#m7
Dadd9
F#m7
Dadd9
F#m7
Bridge 1
Dadd9
F#m7
Dadd9
Goodbye mama, goodbye to you
C#m7
F#m7
Dadd9
C#m7
Goodbye papa
F#m7
Dadd9
F#m7
A
I'm pushing on through
Bm
A
E/G#
F#m
E
Interlude 3
Dmaj7
G#m7b5
C#m7
Cmaj7#11
B7sus4
B7
Dmaj9
E7sus4
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
A/C#
D
E/G#
Verse 3
A/C#
D
home on a winter day
E/G#
A
Nineteen sisty-nine
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
A/C#
And he hoped to find all the love
E/G#
A
in that earlier time
A/C#
D
E/G#
A
Pre-chorus 3
C#7sus4
C#7
To be nobody's fool
Chorus 3
Dmaj7
G#m7b5
C#m7
Cmaj7#11
Oh, oh what a lonely boy
B7sus4
B7
Dmaj9
Oh what a lonely boy
F#m7
F#m/E
Chorus 4
G#m7b5
C#m7
Cmaj7#11
Oh what a lonely boy
B7sus4
B7
Dmaj9
Oh what a lonely boy
Outro 1
A/C#
D
E/G#
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A/C#
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E/G#
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A/C#
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E/G#
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A/C#
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A
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