Artist: The Cowsills
Title: Newspaper Blanket
[Intro]
Cm
Sad old man nobody loves him
[Verse]
Cm Fm G# D#
Every morning I would see him sleeping in the dew
Cm Fm G
He never noticed me as I passed by
Cm Fm G# D#
I'd walk by slowly staring at the holes worn through his shoes
Cm Fm G
Wondering how he managed to get by
[Chorus]
Cm Fm Am
Sad old man nobody loves him
Cm B F D#
Sad old man has no place to stay
G# G#m
And nothing to claim but a broken down park bench
A# Gm
And a newspaper blanket on a cold winter's day
[Verse]
Cm Fm G# D#
The afternoon would come; I'd see him begging by the square
Cm Fm G
While I was in the crowd without a mind
Cm Fm G# D#
And had I been alone, I would have told him someone cared
Cm Fm G
But it never bothered him for he was blind
[Chorus]
Cm Fm Am
Sad old man nobody loves him
Cm B F D#
Sad old man has no place to stay
G# G#m
And nothing to claim but a broken down park bench
A# Gm
And a newspaper blanket on a cold winter's day
[Outro]
Cm Fm Am
Sad old man how long will you be here
Cm B F D#
Sad old man how long can you stay
G# G#m
For if you should leave who'll take care of the park bench
A# Gm
And the newspaper blanket would be left by the way