He was born on a summer day 1951

And with the 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 '53 his mother

Brought him a sister

But 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 oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Goodbye mama

Goodbye to you

Goodbye papa

I'm pushin' 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 oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Oh oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy