I what he'll think of me I he'll call me "the old man" I guess he'll think I can Ev'ry fella's father Well, I can
I bet he turns out to be The image of his dad But he'll more common sense his puddin'-headed father ever had
I'll teach him to wrassle and through a wave we go in the morning for our swim His mother can him the way to behave But she make 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, will Like a he'll grow with his head held high And his feet planted firm on the 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 or work 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 up and down the streets of a town with a whip and a horse and a hack
He can haul a scow a canal Run a cow around a Or maybe bark for a Of course, it talent 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 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, Bill a tree he'll grow with his head held high And his feet 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, bully'll boss him around
And I'll be damned if marry his boss's daughter A virgin with blood like water Who'll give him a peck and it a kiss And look in his eyes through a Hey, why am I takin' on this? My kid ain't even born yet
I can see him he's seventeen or so And in to go with a girl I can give him lots of Very sound, on the way to get 'round any 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 to a girl
She be so bad, at that A kid with ribbons in her A kind of neat and petite tin-type of her mother What a
My girl, pink and white as peaches and cream is she My little girl is half again as as girls were meant to be Dozens of boys her, many a likely lad Does 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 hungry ev'ry night and she comes home to me
I gotta get before she comes Gotta make that she won't be dragged 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 how to get money but, I'll try, by God! I'll try I'll go out and make it or it Or it or die