Lonesome Man
| Song Title | Lonesome Man (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Paul Bowles |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Author(s): | Tennessee Williams |
| Author Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Alone; Beds; Bones; Buying; Chairs; Clocks; Clopping; Dishes; Doors; Feet; Floors; Folk; Fools; Grinning; Ham; Hardwood; Heads; Home; Insomnia; Isolation; Loneliness; Lonesome; Looking; Love; Moon; Nobody; Personification: Moon; Ragtime; Regret; Rocking; Single; Sleepless; Solitude; Stopping; Stores; Teeth; Tick Tock; Without Love |
| First Line | My chair rock-rocks by the door all day (Search) |
| Average Duration | 1:30 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1946 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://songofamerica.net/song/lonesome-man/ |
| Larger Work | Blue Mountain Ballads (Search) |
| Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Contemporary drama (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/blue-mountain-ballads-sheet-music/3166508 |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/2LAgSwvfJ4D7zMZ2NvSJb1 |
| Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | No. 2 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Medium voice |
| Range: | Db4 - Eb5 (Search) |
| Original Key | Eb Major (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | G Schirmer, "Blue Mountain Ballads, Paul Bowles" (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM , Gregory Zavracky (Search) |
| Contributor Affiliation | University of Connecticut, Brown University (Search) |