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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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 its a piano song really, so its 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.