I wonder what he'll of me I he'll call me "the old man" I guess he'll I can lick Ev'ry other father 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 ever had
teach him to wrassle and dive through a wave When we go in the morning for our His mother can teach him the way to But she make a sissy 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, will Like a tree he'll grow with his held high And his feet planted firm on the And you won't see nobody to try to boss or toss him around No pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll him around
I don't give a damn what he 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 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 talent to do that
He might be a champ of the Or a that sells you glue Or President of the United be all right, too
Spoken His mother would that, but he wouldn't be President unless he wanted to be Not
My boy, he'll be tall and as tough as a tree, will Bill a tree he'll grow with his head held high And his feet firm on the ground And you see nobody dare to try to boss or toss him around No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, pot-bellied, bully'll boss him around
And be damned if he'll marry his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped 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 takin' on this? My kid ain't been born yet
I can see him he's seventeen or so And in to go with a girl I can give him of pointers sound, on the way to get 'round any girl I can him Wait a it be? What the if he is a girl? You can fun with 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 a pair
My little girl, pink and white as peaches and is she My little girl is 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 ev'ry night and she comes home to me
I get ready before she comes Gotta make certain that she won't be dragged up in slums with a lot o' bums me She's gotta be sheltered and fed and dressed in the best that 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