I wonder what he'll of me I he'll call me "the old man" I guess think 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 father ever had
I'll teach him to wrassle and dive a wave we go in the morning for our swim His can teach him the way to behave But she won't make a 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 held And his feet firm on the ground And you won't see nobody dare to try to boss or him around No pot-bellied, bully'll boss him around
I don't give a damn what he does as long as he does he likes He can sit on his tail or work on a rail a hammer and hammer in spikes He can ferry a on a river or peddle a pack on his back Or work up and down the streets of a town with a and a horse and a hack
He can a scow along a canal Run a cow a corral Or maybe for a carousel Of course, it takes to do that well
He be a champ of the heavyweights Or a fella that you glue 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 tough as a tree, will Like a tree he'll grow 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 fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll 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 peck and call it a And look in his through a *lorgnette* Hey, why am I takin' on like My kid ain't even been yet
I can see him when 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 have fun a son But you got to be a father to a
She mighn't be so bad, at A kid with in her hair A kind of neat and petite little tin-type of her a pair
My little girl, pink and white as and cream is she My little girl is half again as bright as were meant to be of boys pursue her, many a likely lad Does what he can to woo her from her dad
She has a few pink and white young fellas of two and But my girl gets 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 with a lot o' bums like me She's gotta be sheltered and fed and in the best that money 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