Lonely Boy lyrics

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

Oh 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"

Ohhh, 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 their only son?

He thought he was their only one

Ohhh, 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, oh 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

Ohhh, oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Whoa-whoa, whoahh, oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

• Artist:Andrew Gold
• Album:What's Wrong with This Picture?