I wonder he'll think of me I guess call me "the old man" I guess he'll I can lick Ev'ry 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 ever had
teach him to wrassle 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 a sissy out o' him Not him! Not my boy! Not
Bill. I will see that he is 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, 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 work on a rail with a hammer and in spikes He can ferry a boat on a river or peddle a pack on his Or work up and down the streets of a town with a whip and a and a hack
He can haul a scow a canal Run a cow around a Or maybe for a carousel Of course, it talent 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 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 a tree he'll grow with his head held high And his feet planted on the ground And you see nobody dare to try to boss or toss him around No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll him around
And be damned if he'll marry his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped virgin with like water give him a peck and call it a kiss And look in his eyes through a Hey, why am I on like this? My kid even been born yet
I can see him when seventeen or so And in to go with a girl I can give him of pointers Very sound, on the way to get any girl I can him a minute it be? What the if he is a girl? You can have fun 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 What a
My little girl, and white as peaches and cream is she My little girl is half again as as girls were meant to be Dozens of pursue her, many 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 night and she comes home to me
I gotta get ready before she Gotta make certain that she be dragged 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 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