Andrew Gould - Lonely Boy

He was born on a summer day nineteen-fifty-one
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

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Goodbye Mama
Goodbye youth
Goodby Papa
I'm pushing on through

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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 school
They 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