Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)

Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)是約翰列儂生前最後一張專輯《double fantasy》中收錄的一首歌曲。

這首歌和Watching the Wheels共同發行為了AB面單曲，這首歌也成為了約翰列儂傳唱度最高的歌曲之一。

這首歌也是列儂寫給自己小兒子的歌曲，Beautiful Boy和Darling Boy就是指的sean lennon。

這首歌是約翰列儂為小兒子sean lennon創作的，當時他只有五歲，還是一個整天跟着母親小野洋子的孩子。

這首歌的內容據推測應該是sean做了一個噩夢，列儂安慰她的兒子：“怪獸已經走了，你爸爸就在這。”

後來轉為了列儂對自己的兒子表達了深切的愛意，最後的高潮部分是列儂不斷吟唱：“漂亮男孩……親愛的西恩（sean）!”

結尾的時候可以聽到列儂耳語道：“Good night, Sean. See you in the morning. Right again！”（“晚安，西恩！明早見！對！”）讓人感到濃濃的生活氣息。這句話和 Ringo Starr在white album專輯中最後一首歌good night唱到的“大家晚安，所有地方，所有事物……”。而good night正是列儂給自己的大兒子Julian Lennon寫的。

Close your eyes

Have no fear

The monster's gone

He's on the run and your daddy's here

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

Beautiful boy

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

Beautiful boy

Before you go to sleep

Say a little prayer

Every day in every way

It's getting better and better

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

Beautiful boy

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

Beautiful boy

Out on the ocean sailing away

I can hardly wait

To see you come of age

But I guess we'll both just have to be patient

'Cause it's a long way to go

A hard row to hoe

Yes it's a long way to go

But in the meantime

Before you cross the street

Take my hand

Life is what happens to you

While you're busy making other plans

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

Beautiful boy

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

Beautiful boy

Out on the ocean sailing away

I can hardly wait

To see you come of age

But I guess we'll both just have to be patient

'Cause it's a long way to go

A hard row to hoe

Yes it's a long way to go

But in the meantime

Before you go to sleep

Say a little prayer

Every day in every way

It's getting better and better

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

Beautiful boy

Darling, darling, darling

Darling Sean

保羅·麥卡特尼評價這首歌為約翰列儂最好的歌曲。

席琳迪翁在2004年翻唱了這首歌，發行在Miracle專輯中，並且在北美和歐洲部分地區作為首發單曲。

這首歌在美國單曲榜位列#18，在加拿大位列#32。

這個版本把最後一句唱詞：“darling sean”去掉了。