Get Ready
Peter Rivera (Formerly Of Rare Earth)
Popularity · Low
Listen
YouTube
0:00 / 0:00
Loading YouTube player...
Lyrics offset
Synced
Lyrics
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, 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 their 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 to you
Goodbye papa, I'm pushing off too
He left home on a winter day 1969
And he left to find all the love he had lost
In that earlier time
Well, his sister grew up and she married a man
She gave them a son, oh 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, 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