Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy Chords

[Intro]
A/C# D   E/G# A
A/C# D   E/G#
 
 
[Verse 1]
A       A/C#      D      E/G#         A        A/C# D   E/G#
 He was born on a summer day nineteen fifty one
A           A/C#      D            E/G#         A        A/C# D   E/G# A
 And with a slap of a hand, he had landed as an only son
 
 
[Pre-Chorus 1]
    F#m        F#m7               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          F#m7              E6
We'll dress him up warmly, and we'll send him to school
      Dmaj7            D6          C#7sus4  C#
It'll teach him how to fight to be nobody's fool
 
 
[Chorus 1]
D    G#m7b5    C#m7   C6
Oh,  oh what a lonely boy
A/B        B      Dmaj7
Oh, what a lonely boy
E7sus4    E9sus4 A
Oh what a lonely boy
 
 
[Interlude 1]
A/C# D   E/G# A
A/C# D   E/G# A
 
 
[Verse 2]
A       A/C#      D     E/G#             A                A/C# D   E/G#
 In the summer of fifty three his mother brought him a sister
A        A/C#        D                  E/G#                A              A/C# D   E/G# A
 And she told him we must attend to her needs She's so much younger than you
 
 
[Pre-Chorus 2]
        F#m          F#m7        E6
Well he ran down the hall and he cried
   Dmaj7                      E6
Oh how could his parents have lied?
          F#m               F#m7 E6
When they said he was their only son
   Dmaj7      D6          C#7sus4  C#
He thought he was their only one
 
 
[Chorus 2]
D    G#m7b5    C#m7   C6
Oh,  oh what a lonely boy
A/B        B      Dmaj7
Oh, what a lonely boy
E7sus4    E9sus4 A
Oh what a lonely boy
 
 
[Interlude 2]
A/C# D   E/G# A
A/C# D   E/G# A
A/C# D   E/G# A
A/C# D   E/G# A
 
 
[Solo]
Dsus2  F#m7 A/E
Dsus2  A/C# F#m7
Dsus2  F#m7 A/E
Dsus2  A/C# F#m7
 
 
[Bridge]
        Dsus2  F#m7 A/E
Goodbye Mama
        Dsus2  A/C# F#m7
Goodbye youth
        Dsus2  F#m7   A/E        Dsus2   A/C# F#m7
Goodbye Papa,     I'm pushing on through
 
Bm7   Dsus2 E/G# F#m7 A D   G#m7b5 C#m7 C6   A/B B   E7sus4
 
 
[Interlude 3]
A/C# D   E/G# A
A/C# D   E/G# A
 
 
[Verse 3]
A        A/C#      D      E/G#          A        A/C# D   E/G#
 He left home on a winter day, nineteen sixty nine
A                A/C#         D           E/G#         A          A/C# D   E/G# A
 And he hoped to find all the love he had lost in that earlier time
 
 
[Pre-Chorus 3]
         F#m         F#m7        E6
Well his sister grew up, and she married a man
   Dmaj7              E6
He gave her a son, ah yes lovely son
     F#m            F#m7         E6
They dressed him up warmly, they sent him to school
   Dmaj7             D6           C#7sus4  C#
It taught him how to fight, to be nobody's fool
 
 
[Chorus 3]
D    G#m7b5    C#m7   C6
Oh,  oh what a lonely boy
A/B        B      Dmaj7
Oh, what a lonely boy
E7sus4    E9sus4 F#m  A/E
Oh what a lonely boy
 
 
[Chorus 4]
A/C# A/E D    G#m7b5    C#m7   C6
Whoa oh  oh,  oh what a lonely boy
A/B        B      Dmaj7
Oh, what a lonely boy
E7sus4     E9sus4 A
Oh, what a lonely boy
 
 
[Outro]
A/C# D   E/G# A
A/C# D   E/G# A
A/C# D   E/G# A
A/C# D   E/G# A A/E