he was born on a summer day 95
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 oh what a lonely boy
oh what a lonely boy
oh what a lonely boy
in the summer of ‘5 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 their only son
he thought he was their only one
oh oh what a lonely boy
oh what a lonely boy
oh what a lonely boy
goodbye mama
goodbye you
goodbye papa
i’m pushing on through
he left home on a winter day 969
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 oh what a lonely boy
oh what a lonely boy
oh what a lonely boy
whoawhoawhoa oh what a lonely boy
oh what a lonely boy
oh what a lonely boy
Artist: Andrew Gold
Year: 1977
Decade: 70s
Language: en
Word Count: 130