JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Lonely Boy" adalah lagu Andrew Gold yang diluncurkan pada 1976 lewat album What's Wrong with this Picture?
Album tersebut merupakan album panjang kedua Andrew Gold setelah merilis album debut eponimnya pada 1975.
"Lonely Boy" menjadi lagu hitnya yang berasal dari album tersebut.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Youre the Love - Seals and Crofts
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Lonely Boy" dari Andrew Gold.
[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