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

        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.
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