Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

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 He was born on a sum- mer day,

nineteen- fifty- one

And with the slap of a hand

He had land- ed as an on- ly son

 His mother and father said "what a lovely boy

 We'll teach him what we learned, ah yes, just what we learned,

 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

Oh, oh, what a lonely boy

 Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

 In the sum- mer of fif- ty- three his mother,

 brought him a sis- ter

And she told him "we must attend to her needs

She's so much youn- ger than you"

 Well, he ran down the hall and he cried

 Oh, how could his parents have lied

 When they said he was an only son

 He thought he was the only one

Chorus

Oh, oh, what a lonely boy

 Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Break

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- - 2x

 Goodbye mama, goodbye you,

 goodbye papa, I'm pushin' on through

He left home on a win- ter day,

nineteen- sixty-nine

And he hoped to find all the love

He had lost in that ear- lier time

 Well, his sister grew up,and she married a man

 He gave her a son ah yes, a lovely son

 They dressed him up warmly they sent him to school

 It taught him how to fight to be nobody's fool

Chorus

Oh, oh, what a lonely boy

 Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, oh, what a lonely boy

 Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Outro

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I hoped the tab would be playable, but it’s a piano song really, so it’s though. the

bass-note is within the chord so if you

play the bass note separately, the position of the chords is pretty much as above. This

way you get the upbeat effect.