Lyrics for singles by Andrew Gold

Thank You For Being a Friend

Thank you for being a friend
Travelled down a road and back again
Your heart is true; you're a pal and a confidant

I'm not ashamed to say
I hope it always will stay this way
My hat is off --- won't you stand up and take a bow

And if you threw a party
Invited everyone you knew
Well, you would see
The biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say

Thank you for being a friend
Thank you for being a friend
Thank you for being a friend
Thank you for being a friend

If it's a car you lack
I'd surely buy you a Cadillac
Whatever you need, any time of the day or night

I'm not ashamed to say
I hope it always will stay this way
My hat is off --- won't you stand up and take a bow

And when we both grow older
with walking canes and hair of gray
Have no fear even though it's hard to hear
I will stand real close and say

Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend

And when we die
And float away
Into the night
The Milky Way

You'll hear me call
As we ascend
I'll say your name
Then once again

Thank you for being a . . .

Lonely Boy

He was born on a summer day, nineteen fifty-one
And with a 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
Oh 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 fifty-three, his mother brought him a sister
And she told, "We must attend to her needs, she's so much younger than you"
Well he ran down the hall and cried
Oh how could his parents have lied
When they said he was the 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

Goodbye Mama
Goodbye youth
Goodbye Papa
I'm pushin' on through

He left home on a winter day nineteen sixty-nine
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
She gave him a son, oh 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

Whoa whoa whoa
Oh what a lonely boy
Oh what a lonely boy
Oh what a lonely boy!