I what he'll think of me I guess he'll me "the old man" I guess he'll I can lick Ev'ry fella's father Well, I can
I bet he turns out to be The image of his dad But he'll have common sense his puddin'-headed father ever had
I'll teach him to and dive through a wave When we go in the morning for our His mother can him the way to behave But she won't 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 head high And his feet planted firm on the 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 a damn what he does as long as he does what he likes He can sit on his tail or work on a 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 with a whip and a horse and a hack
He can haul a scow a canal Run a cow around a Or bark for a carousel Of course, it takes talent to do that
He be a champ of the heavyweights Or a fella that sells you Or of the United 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 tall and as as a tree, will Bill Like a tree he'll grow his head held high And his feet planted firm on the 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 marry his boss's A virgin with 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 born yet
I can see him when seventeen or so And startin' in to go with a I can him lots 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 mighn't be so bad, at A kid ribbons in her hair A of neat and petite little tin-type of her mother a pair
My girl, pink and white as peaches and cream is she My little girl is half again as bright as girls were to be Dozens of boys pursue her, a likely lad Does what he can to woo her her faithful dad
She has a few and white young fellas of two and three But my little girl hungry ev'ry night and she comes home to me
I gotta get ready she comes Gotta make certain that she won't be dragged up in slums a lot o' bums like me She's gotta be and fed and dressed in the best that money can buy I never knew how to get but, I'll try, by God! I'll try go out and make it or steal it Or it or die