Lonesome Boy Blues

"Lonesome Boy Blues" is the third and final song of Simon Sargon's song cycle Patterns in Blue, which sets the poetry of three American poets. The poetry of "Lonesome Boy Blues" is by Kenneth Patchen.

Date: 1974Composer: Simon SargonText: Kenneth PatchenSong Collection: Patterns in Blue

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Lonesome Boy Blues
by Kenneth Patchen

Oh nobody’s a long time
Nowhere’s a big pocket
To put little
Pieces of nice things that

Have never really happened

To anyone except
Those people who were lucky enough
Not to get born
Oh lonesome’s a bad place

To get crowded into

With only
Yourself riding back and forth
On
A blind white horse
Along an empty road meeting
All your
Pals face to face

Nobody’s a long time

Sheet Music

Patterns in Blue

Composer(s): Simon Sargon

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