I wonder what he'll of me I guess he'll 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 have more common sense Than his puddin'-headed father had
I'll teach him to wrassle and dive a wave we go in the morning for our swim His mother can teach him the way to But she won't make a out o' him Not him! Not my boy! Not
Bill. I will see that he is named me, I will My boy, Bill, he'll be and tough as a tree, will Bill Like a tree he'll grow with his head high And his feet planted on the ground And you see nobody dare to try to boss or toss him around No pot-bellied, baggy-eyed boss him around
I give a damn what he does as long as he does what he likes He can sit on his tail or on a rail with 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 horse and a
He can haul a scow along a Run a cow a corral Or bark for a carousel Of course, it talent to do that well
He be a champ of the heavyweights Or a fella that sells you Or of the United States be all right, too
Spoken His mother like that, but he wouldn't be President unless he wanted to be Not
My boy, Bill be tall and as tough as a tree, will Bill Like a tree he'll grow with his head held And his feet planted on the ground And you won't see dare to try to boss or toss him around No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, pot-bellied, bully'll boss him around
And I'll be damned if marry his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped virgin blood like water Who'll give him a peck and call it a And in his eyes through a *lorgnette* Hey, why am I on like this? My kid ain't been born yet
I can see him when seventeen or so And startin' in to go a girl 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 father to a
She be so bad, at that A kid with ribbons in her A kind of and petite little tin-type of her mother What a
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 boys pursue her, many a lad what he can to woo her from her faithful dad
She has a few pink and white young fellas of two and But my little girl gets hungry night and she comes home to me
I gotta get before she comes Gotta make certain she won't be dragged up in slums with a lot o' bums like me She's gotta be and fed and dressed in the best that money can buy I never how to get money but, I'll try, by God! I'll try go out and make it or steal it Or it or die