He was born on a summer day nineteen fifty one

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 fifty three 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 oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Goodbye momma goodbye youth

Goodbye papa I'm pushing on through

He left home on a winter day nineteen sixty nine

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 oh

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

Whoa whoa whoa oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy