Born in pleasant green, like a picture postcard scene To childhood spread with fond maternal From the day he was born, proud relations came to fawn And compliment his pretty hair
In boyhood sent away to a school to stay crumbling proud traditions forced to bear And his friends in this new world said, he looks like a girl With those blue eyes and pretty golden
Fades youth Into manhood's search for His mother's eyes now wet had turned to For he said I be bound
This day for town For I believe my fortune's waiting So, like an eager knife He plunged in a new
Ohh, never known anywhere And the thought he might trip In his and slip Never struck his pretty golden hair
Ahh, the days soon grew thin and boredom set in His job was thrown without a care For a man who softly said, you'll twice as much instead With those blue and pretty golden hair
Well, London town of many a tempters nest And thus he fell with scarce care As so easily he into prostitution's grip by his pretty golden hair
Ahh, but the years quickly flew and his slowly grew From freedom into deep despair As the money ceased to roll. a and lonely soul Poured curses on his pretty golden
Ahh, the years their time, now, the living's hard to find And friends have vanished in the air And the gay parties's changed to public lavatories Have turned to grey his golden hair
Ohh, his was only used and his body just abused By those who think and never care But though his file suicide, no, that wasn't why he died It was murder by his pretty golden