I what he'll think of me I he'll call me "the old man" I guess he'll think I can Ev'ry other fella's Well, I can
I bet that he out to be The image of his dad But have more common sense Than his puddin'-headed father had
I'll teach him to wrassle and dive through a When we go in the morning for our His mother can him the way to behave But she won't a sissy out o' him Not him! Not my boy! Not
Bill. I will see he is named after me, I will My boy, Bill, be tall and tough as a tree, will Bill Like a tree he'll grow with his head held And his planted firm on the ground And you won't see dare to try to boss or toss him around No pot-bellied, bully'll boss him around
I don't give a damn what he as long as he does what he likes He can sit on his tail or work on a rail a hammer and hammer in spikes He can ferry a boat on a river or peddle a on his back Or work up and down the streets of a town with a whip and a and a hack
He can a scow along a canal Run a cow around a Or maybe for a carousel Of course, it takes talent to do that
He be a champ of the heavyweights Or a fella sells you glue Or of the United States be all right, too
Spoken His mother would that, but he wouldn't be President unless he wanted to be Not
My boy, Bill he'll be tall and as tough as a tree, Bill Like a tree grow with his head held high And his planted firm on the ground And you won't see nobody dare to try to or toss him around No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll him around
And I'll be damned if he'll his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped virgin with blood water Who'll give him a peck and it a kiss And in his eyes through a *lorgnette* Hey, why am I on like this? My kid ain't even been yet
I can see him when seventeen or so And startin' in to go with a I can give him lots of Very sound, on the way to get 'round any I can him a minute it be? What the if he is a girl? You can fun with a son But you got to be a father to a
She be so bad, at that A kid ribbons in her hair A kind of neat and petite little of her mother a pair
My little girl, pink and as peaches and cream is she My girl is half again as bright as girls were meant to be Dozens of pursue her, many a likely lad Does he can to woo her from her faithful dad
She has a few and white young fellas of two and three But my girl gets hungry ev'ry night and she comes home to me
I gotta get before she comes Gotta make certain that she won't be up in slums with a lot o' bums like me She's gotta be sheltered and fed and dressed in the that money can buy I never knew how to get money but, I'll try, by God! try go out and make it or steal it Or it or die