Joan Baez - I Once Loved a Boy I once loved a boy, just a bold brown-haired boy who would come and would go at my request; and this bold Irish boy was my pride and my joy and I built him a bower in my breast. But this girl who has taken my bonny, bonny boy, May she make of him all that she can; and whether he loves me or loves me not, I will walk with my love now and then.