| 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, 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 |