Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy video free download


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Uploaded: 2009/09/13

From his 1976 album "What's Wrong With This Picture?"

(There are actually 32 things wrong with the picture. http://www.classroomtools.com/wronglst.htm

Lyrics:

He was born on a summer day, 1951

And with the slap of a hand

He had landed as an only 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

Oh, oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

In the summer of '53 his mother

Brought him a sister

But she told him "we must attend to her needs"

"She's so much younger 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

Oh, oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

[Instrumental Interlude]

Goodbye Mama

Goodbye to you

Goodbye Papa

I'm pushin' on through

He left home on a winter day, 1969

And he hoped to find all the love

He had lost in that earlier 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

Oh, oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Comments

8 years ago

Chris Denslow

Such a classic song I love itTrivia: What Adam Sandler movie featured this song?

8 years ago

lorraine smith

I feel like I'm the only 15 year old that knows this song...

8 years ago

timtrek

Talk radio host Chris Barrie played this every night for his entire career on Dublin's 98fm, always quite late into the show at about 12.30/1pm back in the early 90's. No one who rang in ever mentioned it and nor did he as far as I can remember.

8 years ago

Billy King

This is a look back at the top 100 hits of 1977 according to Billboard Magazine and this is the halfway point and at #50 was the late Andrew Gold and his top 10 hit.

8 years ago

Brandon chilian

THUMBS UP FOR BOOGIE NIGHTS!!!!

8 years ago

Brooke Hanley

Only a genius could have been responsible for this song.

8 years ago

zaphod67uk

The piano starts and creates an offbeat, the drums join in on an off-beat from that - the lyrics start on a further offbeat.. good bloody lord..

8 years ago

Chad Clark

You know what doesn't help the situation with a pissed off teenager? Singing this song and changing the lyrics to "Oh what an angry boy".

9 years ago

ronald ferreira

the phone line is connected to the guitar

9 years ago

paul simmons

I've always liked this song but even more so as I got older...andrew gold was a perceptive lyricist with a great ear for melody...may god rest his soul...

9 years ago

dolphinbuc

The kind of song that makes you just smile when the intro hits....

9 years ago

Joe Mel

Lonely Boy is one year from retirement.. 1951

9 years ago

mariko takahashi

Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy当時三原順さんはこの曲を聴きながらMASHはみだしっこを描いていたんだろうか あまりにもぴったりだ

9 years ago

John Lancaster

One of my first fave songs...nice lyrics!

9 years ago

Kelly Stevens

The gender doesn't matter on this, despite the title. It applies to all who feel this circumstance.

9 years ago

Alex Fernandez

One of best songs ever

9 years ago

Steve Frandsen

Wrong with the picture? The electric axe s/n/b laying on the floor.

9 years ago

Steve Frandsen

1977 was the best year of my life. Lots of things going well for me. The music was great also. Thank you for posting a page from my past.

9 years ago

QueequegsCoffin1

Hey lonely boy! Walk it off! Great song though, just whiney, whiney lyrics. Damned sisters ruin everything!

9 years ago

Chi Chi El Transgenero

What's wrong with this picture?

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