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      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