This site is advertising a CD called "East Coast Folk" "performed by Nova Scotia's own John Gracie as a tribute to the late Gene MacLellan." One of the songs is BORN WITH A THORN IN MY SHOE, and it provides a generous excerpt, from which I transcribed this:

I was fairly grown when I left my home
For the land where the evergreens grow,
And deep inside was a voice that kept sayin', "I told you so."
The good friends I had were few,
And my skies weren't always blue.
Some nights I slept in the corn
'Cause I was born with a thorn in my shoe.

Although the sun was hot and the handouts I got
Were few and far between....

Oddly, there are some other sites that seem to describe the same album under the title "A Gene MacLellan Tribute."