I wonder he'll think of me I guess he'll me "the old man" I he'll think I can lick Ev'ry other father Well, I can
I bet that he out to be The spittin' of his dad But have more common sense Than his puddin'-headed father had
I'll teach him to wrassle and through a wave When we go in the for our swim His mother can 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 as a tree, will Bill 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 pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll him around
I don't give a damn what he does as long as he does what he He can sit on his tail or work on a rail with a and hammer in spikes He can ferry a on a river or peddle a pack on his back Or work up and down the streets of a town a whip and a horse and a hack
He can a scow along 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 you glue Or of the United States be all right, too
Spoken His mother would like that, but he be President unless he wanted to be Not
My boy, Bill he'll be and as tough as a tree, will Bill Like a tree grow with his head held high And his planted firm on the ground And you won't see nobody to try to boss or toss him around No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll boss him
And I'll be damned if he'll his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped virgin blood like water Who'll give him a and call it a kiss And look in his eyes a *lorgnette* Hey, why am I takin' on like My kid ain't even been yet
I can see him he's seventeen or so And startin' in to go with a 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 father to a
She be so bad, at that A kid with in her hair A of neat and petite little tin-type of her mother What a
My little girl, pink and white as peaches and is she My little girl is half again as bright as girls were to be of boys pursue her, many a likely lad Does he can to woo her from her faithful dad
She has a few pink and white fellas of two and three But my little girl gets ev'ry night and she comes home to me
I get ready 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 best that can buy I never knew how to get but, I'll try, by God! I'll try I'll go out and make it or it Or it or die