I wonder what he'll of me I guess call me "the old man" I he'll think I can lick Ev'ry other fella's Well, I can
I bet he turns out to be The image of his dad But he'll more common sense Than his puddin'-headed father had
teach him to wrassle and dive through a wave When we go in the morning for our His can teach him the way to behave But she make 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, he'll be tall and tough as a tree, Bill a tree he'll grow with his head held high And his feet firm on the ground And you won't see nobody dare to try to boss or him around No pot-bellied, bully'll boss him around
I don't a damn what he does as long as he does what he likes He can sit on his tail or work on a rail with a and hammer in spikes He can ferry a boat on a river or peddle a on his back Or work up and down the of a town with a whip and a horse and a hack
He can haul a scow a canal Run a cow around a Or maybe bark for a Of course, it takes to do that well
He might be a of the heavyweights Or a fella that sells you Or President of the States be all right, too
Spoken His would like 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, will Like a tree he'll grow with his head high And his feet 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 marry his daughter A virgin with blood like water Who'll give him a and call it a kiss And look in his eyes through a Hey, why am I on like this? My kid ain't been born yet
I can see him he's seventeen or so And startin' in to go with a I can him lots of pointers sound, on the way to get 'round any girl I can him a minute it be? What the What if he is a You can have fun a son But you got to be a to a girl
She mighn't be so bad, at A kid with in her hair A kind of neat and little tin-type of her mother a pair
My little girl, pink and white as peaches and is she My little girl is half as bright as girls were meant to be Dozens of boys her, many a likely lad Does what he can to woo her from her dad
She has a few pink and white young of two and three But my little girl gets hungry ev'ry night and she comes to me
I gotta get ready she comes Gotta make certain that she be dragged up in slums with a lot o' bums like me She's be sheltered and fed and dressed in the best that money can buy I never knew how to get money but, try, by God! I'll try I'll go out and make it or it Or it or die