In the light of the sun
is there an y one?
Oh, it has be gun.
Oh, dear, you look so lost.
Your eyes are red and tears are shed.
This world you must have crossed.
You said, “You don’t know me and you don’t e ven care,
oh, yeah.”
Well, you said, “You don’t know me and you don’t wear my
chains,
oh, yeah.”
Es sen tial yet ap pealed,
you car ry all your thoughts
a cross an o pen field.
When the flowers gaze at you,
they’re not the on ly ones
cry in’ when they see you.
You said,
She said, “I think I’ll go to Bos ton.
I think I’ll start a new life.
I think I’ll start it o ver where no one knows my name.
I’ll get out of Cal i for nia.
I’m tired of the weath er.
I think I’ll get a lov er and fly him out to Spain.
Oh, yeah, I think I’ll go to Bos ton.
I think that I’m just tired.
life.
I think I need a new town to leave this all be hind.
I think I of need a sun rise.
I’m tired of the sun set.
Hear it’s nice in the sum mer, some snow him would be Spain.
Oh, yeah, I think I’ll go to nice,
oh, yeah.” You don’t know me and you don’t e ven care,
oh, yeah.
Bos ton,
no one knows my name.
No one knows my name.
No one knows my name.
No one knows my name.
This page shows “Boston” by Augustana in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of C at 72 BPM, a slightly more challenging arrangement — practice each phrase slowly first.