Born in pleasant green, like a picture postcard scene To spread with fond maternal care the day that he was born, proud relations came to fawn And his pretty golden hair
In boyhood sent to a boarding 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 secluded Into manhood's search for His mother's eyes now wet had turned to For he said I must be
This day for London For I believe my fortune's there So, like an eager cutting He in a new life
Ohh, never known anywhere And the thought that he trip In his and slip Never struck beneath his golden hair
Ahh, the days soon thin and boredom fast set in His job was away without a care For a man who softly said, you'll earn twice as instead With those eyes and pretty golden hair
Well, London town possessed of many a nest And thus he fell with scarce another As so easily he slipped into prostitution's by his pretty golden hair
Ahh, but the years quickly flew and his mind grew From early into deep despair As the money ceased to roll. a tired and lonely Poured curses on his pretty golden
Ahh, the years stole their time, now, the living's to find And early friends have in the air And the gay parties's changed to public lavatories Have turned to grey his pretty hair
Ohh, his life was only used and his body just By those who never and never care But his file said suicide, no, that wasn't why he died It was murder by his pretty golden