LONELY BOY
Andrew Gold


He was born on a summer day 1951
And with a slap of a hand 
He 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