1974
Lonesome Boy Blues
Composed by 
Simon Sargon
Simon Sargon Text by 
Kenneth Patchen
Kenneth Patchen Patterns in Blue Song Collection
"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.
Text
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
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