Lonely Boy

Writer

Andrew Gold

Lyrics

He was born on a summer day 1951
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
Oh yeah 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 ’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 you
Goodbye papa, 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
Oh yes a lovely son
They dressed him up warmly
And 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, oh, oh what a lonely boy
Oh what a lonely boy
Oh what a lonely boy

Releases

Guilty Pleasures

The song was released on the band’s forth album Guilty Pleasures.