I wonder what think of me I guess call me "the old man" I guess think I can lick other fella's father Well, I can
I bet he turns out to be The image of his dad But he'll have more common Than his puddin'-headed ever had
I'll teach him to wrassle and dive a wave When we go in the morning for our His can teach him the way to behave But she won't a sissy out o' him Not him! Not my boy! Not
Bill. I will see he is named after me, I will My boy, Bill, be tall and 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 pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll boss him
I don't give a damn he does as long as he does what he likes He can sit on his or work on a rail with a hammer and hammer in spikes He can ferry a on a river or peddle a pack on his back Or work up and the streets of a town with 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 that 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, Bill be tall and as tough as a tree, will Bill Like a tree grow with his head held high And his feet planted on the ground 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 be damned if he'll marry his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped virgin with blood like 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 born yet
I can see him when seventeen or so And in to go with a girl I can him lots of pointers Very sound, on the way to get 'round any 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 to a girl
She be so bad, at that A kid ribbons in her hair A kind of and petite little tin-type of her mother What a
My little girl, pink and white as peaches and is she My girl is half again as bright as girls were meant to be Dozens of pursue her, many 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 gets hungry ev'ry and she comes home to me
I gotta get 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 never knew how to get but, I'll try, by God! I'll try I'll go out and make it or it Or it or die