I what he'll think of me I guess call me "the old man" I guess think I can lick Ev'ry other fella's Well, I can
I bet he turns out to be The image of his dad But have more common sense Than his puddin'-headed father had
I'll teach him to wrassle and dive a wave we go in the morning for our swim His mother can him the way to behave But she won't make a out o' him Not him! Not my boy! Not
Bill. I will see that he is named after me, I My boy, Bill, he'll be tall and as a tree, will Bill a tree he'll grow with his head held high And his planted firm on the ground And you won't see dare to try to boss or toss him around No pot-bellied, bully'll boss him around
I don't give a damn he does as long as he does what he likes He can sit on his tail or work on a rail a hammer and hammer in spikes He can ferry a boat on a or peddle a pack on his back Or work up and down the streets of a town with a whip and a horse and a
He can haul a along a canal Run a cow a corral Or maybe bark for a Of course, it takes talent to do that
He be a champ of the heavyweights Or a fella sells you glue Or President of the United be all right, too
Spoken His would like that, but he wouldn't be President unless he wanted to be Not
My boy, he'll be tall and as tough as a tree, will Bill Like a tree he'll grow his head held high And his planted 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 bully'll boss him
And I'll be damned if he'll marry his daughter A skinny-lipped virgin blood like water Who'll give him a peck and it a kiss 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 he's or so And in to go with a girl I can give him lots of 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 father to a
She be so bad, at that A kid with ribbons in her A kind of neat and petite little tin-type of her a pair
My little girl, pink and white as peaches and is she My little is half again as bright as girls were meant to be Dozens of boys pursue her, a likely lad what he can to woo her from her faithful dad
She has a few and white young fellas of two and three But my little girl gets hungry night and she comes home to me
I gotta get ready before she Gotta make certain that she won't be dragged up in slums with a lot o' like me She's gotta be sheltered and fed and dressed in the best money can buy I never 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