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 he turns out to be The spittin' of his dad But have more common sense Than his puddin'-headed father had
teach him to wrassle and dive through a wave When we go in the for our swim His mother can teach him the way to But she won't make a out o' him Not him! Not my boy! Not
Bill. I will see that he is named me, I will My boy, Bill, be tall and tough as a tree, will Bill Like a tree he'll grow with his held high And his feet firm on the ground And you see nobody dare to try to boss or toss him around No pot-bellied, bully'll boss him around
I don't give a 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 a boat 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 haul a along a canal Run a cow around a Or bark for a carousel Of course, it talent to do that well
He be a champ of the heavyweights Or a fella that sells you Or President of the States be all right, too
Spoken His mother would like that, but he wouldn't be President unless he to be Not
My boy, Bill he'll be and as tough 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 fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, pot-bellied, baggy-eyed boss him around
And I'll be damned if he'll his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped virgin with blood like Who'll give him a peck and it a kiss And in his eyes through a *lorgnette* Hey, why am I on like this? My kid ain't even born yet
I can see him he's seventeen or so And startin' in to go 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 What if he is a 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 neat and little 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 bright as girls meant to be Dozens of boys her, many a likely lad Does what he can to woo her her faithful dad
She has a few pink and young fellas of two and three But my girl gets hungry ev'ry night and she comes home to me
I get ready before she comes make certain that she won't be dragged up in slums with a lot o' bums like me She's gotta be sheltered and fed and in the best that money can buy I knew how to get money but, I'll try, by God! I'll try I'll go out and it or steal it Or it or die