I wonder what think of me I guess call me "the old man" I guess he'll I can lick Ev'ry other father Well, I can
I bet that he out to be The image of his dad But he'll have more sense Than his puddin'-headed ever had
teach him to wrassle and dive through a wave When we go in the 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, Bill a tree he'll grow with his head 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 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 boat on a river or peddle a pack on his Or work up and down the streets of a town with a whip and a and a hack
He can haul a 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 of the heavyweights Or a fella that sells you Or President of the United 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 he'll grow his head held high And his feet planted on the ground And you won't see nobody dare to try to boss or him around No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, pot-bellied, baggy-eyed boss him around
And I'll be damned if marry his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped virgin with blood 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 even been born yet
I can see him he's seventeen or so And startin' in to go with a I can give him lots of 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 fun with a son But you got to be a father to a
She mighn't be so bad, at A kid with ribbons in her A kind of neat and petite little of her mother a pair
My little girl, pink and white as 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 from her dad
She has a few and white young fellas of two and three But my little gets hungry ev'ry night and she comes home to me
I gotta get ready before she 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 that money can buy I never knew how to get but, I'll try, by God! I'll try I'll go out and it or steal it Or it or die