He was born on a summer day, 1951 And with a slap of a hand, he had landed as an only son His mother and father said what a lovely boy We'll teach him what we learned, ah yes just what we learned We'll dress him up warmly and we'll send him to school It'll teach him how to fight to be nobody's fool
Oh, what a lonely boy Oh, what a lonely boy Oh, what a lonely boy
In the summer of '53 his mother brought him a sister And she told him we must attend to her needs She's so much younger than you Well he ran down the hall and he cried Oh how could his parents have lied When they said he was an only son He thought he was the only one
Oh, what a lonely boy Oh, what a lonely boy Oh, what a lonely boy
Goodbye mama, goodbye to you Goodbye papa, I'm pushing on through
He left home on a winter day 1969 And he hoped to find all the love He had lost in that earlier time Well his sister grew up and she married a man He gave her a son, ah yes a lovely son They dressed him up warmly, they sent him to school It taught him how to fight to be nobody's fool
Oh, what a lonely boy Oh, what a lonely boy Oh, what a lonely boy ...
