He was born on a summer day nineteen sixty-one   And with the slap of a hand he had landed as an only son   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 and be nobody's fool      Oh, oh what a lonely boy   Oh, what a lonely boy   Oh, what a lonely boy      In the summer of sixty-three his mother brought him a sister   And she told him we must attend to her needs    She's so much younger that 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      He left home on a winter day nineteen and seventy-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   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 and be nobody's fool      Oh, oh what a lonely boy   Oh, what a lonely boy   Oh, what a lonely boy      Oh, oh what a lonely boy   Oh, what a lonely boy   Oh, what a lonely boy...      --- Instrumental to fade ---