I wonder he'll think of me I guess call me "the old man" I guess he'll think I can other fella's father 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 and dive through a wave When we go in the for our swim His can teach him the way to behave But she won't make a out o' him Not him! Not my boy! Not
Bill. I see that he is named after me, I will My boy, Bill, he'll be tall and tough as a tree, Bill Like a tree he'll grow with his head high And his feet planted firm on the And you won't see dare to try to boss or toss him around No pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll 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 a pack on his back Or work up and down the streets of a with a whip and a horse and a hack
He can a scow along a canal Run a cow around a Or maybe for a carousel Of course, it takes to do that well
He be a champ of the heavyweights Or a fella sells you glue Or President of the United be all right, too
Spoken His mother would like that, but he wouldn't be President he wanted to be Not
My boy, Bill he'll be tall and as tough as a tree, Bill Like a tree he'll grow with his head held And his feet planted firm on the And you see nobody dare to try to boss or toss him around No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, pot-bellied, baggy-eyed boss him around
And I'll be damned if marry his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped virgin with like water Who'll give him a peck and call it a And look in his through a *lorgnette* Hey, why am I on like this? My kid even been born yet
I can see him when he's or so And startin' in to go with a I can give him of pointers sound, on the way to get 'round any girl 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 to a girl
She be so bad, at that A kid ribbons in her hair A kind of and petite little tin-type of her mother a pair
My little girl, pink and white as and cream is she My little is half again as bright as girls were meant to be Dozens of boys pursue her, a likely lad Does what he can to woo her from her dad
She has a few pink and young fellas of two and three But my little girl gets hungry ev'ry and she comes home to me
I gotta get ready she comes Gotta make that 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 knew how to get money but, I'll try, by God! try I'll go out and make it or it Or it or die