Lonely Boy

He was born on a summer day, 1951 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, 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 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 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 the 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 mama Goodbye to you, yeah Goodbye papa I'm pushing on through He left home on a winter day, 1969 And he left to find all the love he had lost in that earlier time Well, his sister grew up, and she married a man She gave him 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 Oh, oh, what a lonely boy Oh, what a lonely boy Oh, what a lonely boy Oh, oh, oh, what a lonely boy Oh, what a lonely boy Oh, what a lonely boy