Lonely (Live) chords by 
Andrew Gold 
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Key: A major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
He was
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born on a summer day 1951
And with a slap of a hand
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He landed as an only son
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His mother and father said
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what a lovely boy
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We'll teach him what we learned
Verse 2
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Ah yes just what we learned
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We'll dress him up warmly and
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We'll send him to school
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It'll teach him how to fight
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To be nobody's fool
Verse 3
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Oh what a lonely boy
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Oh what a lonely boy
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Oh what a lonely boy
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Verse 4
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In the summer of '53 his mother
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Brought him a sister
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And she told him we must
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at tend to her needs
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She's so much younger than you
Verse 5
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Well he ran down the hall and he cried
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Oh how could his parents have lied
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When they said he was an only son
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He thought he was the only one
Verse 6
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Oh what a lonely boy
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Oh what a lonely boy
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Oh what a lonely boy
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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Goodbye mama,
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goodbye to you
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Goodbye papa I'm pushing on through
Interlude 2
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He left
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home on a winter
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day 1969
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And he hoped to find all the love
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He had lost in that earlier time
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Well his sister grew up
Verse 9
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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
Verse 10
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They sen t him to school
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It taught him how to fight
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To be nobody's fool
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Oh
Verse 11
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what a lonely boy
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Oh what a lonely boy
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Oh what a lonely boy
Outro 1
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ChordsA D E F#m C#sus4...
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F#m
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C#m
G#dim
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Capo: 2
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