“Lonely Boy” (by Mike Viola)

katya-oddio on 11/06/12 at 10:44PM

Andrew Maurice Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011) was an American singer, musician and songwriter. His works include the Top 10 single "Lonely Boy" (1977), as well as "Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978), and "Spooky, Scary Skeletons" (1996). --Wikipedia

LONELY BOY by Andrew Gold

He was born on a summer day 1951
And with a slap of a hand
He 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

Goodbye mama, goodbye to you
Goodbye papa I'm 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
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