Lonely Boy-Andrew Gold

[00:15.60]He was born on a summer day, 1951 [00:21.95]And with a slap of a hand, he had landed as an only son [00:31.12]His mother and father said, "What a lovely boy [00:35.22]We'll teach him what we learned, ah, yes, just what we learned [00:38.94]We'll dress him up warmly, and we'll send him to school [00:42.93]It'll teach him how to fight, to be nobody's fool" [00:46.68]Oh, oh, what a lonely boy [00:52.76]Oh, what a lonely boy [00:56.34]Oh, what a lonely boy [00:58.75] [01:06.37]In the summer of '53, his mother brought him a sister [01:13.66]And she told him, "We must attend to her needs [01:16.68]She's so much younger than you" [01:21.69]Well, he ran down the hall and he cried [01:24.70]Oh, how could his parents have lied? [01:28.90]When they said he was their only son [01:32.86]He thought he was their only one [01:37.53]Oh, oh, what a lonely boy [01:43.07]Oh, what a lonely boy [01:46.85]Oh, what a lonely boy [01:49.26] [02:19.69]Goodbye mama, goodbye to you [02:26.75]Goodbye papa I'm pushing on through [02:56.32]He left home on a winter day 1969 [03:03.61]And he hoped to find all the love [03:08.22]He had lost in that earlier time [03:12.53]Well his sister grew up [03:14.37]And she married a man [03:16.43]He gave her a son [03:18.21]Ah yes a lovely son [03:20.52]They dressed him up warmly [03:22.31]They sent him to school [03:24.22]It taught him how to fight [03:26.10]To be nobody's fool [03:27.56] [03:28.37]Oh, oh, what a lonely boy [03:34.14]Oh what a lonely boy [03:38.06]Oh what a lonely boy [03:42.37]Oh, oh, oh, oh what a lonely boy [03:49.23]Oh, what a lonely boy [03:53.23]Oh, what a lonely boy