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 that he out to be The image of his dad But have more common sense Than his father ever had
teach him to wrassle 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 will see that he is after me, I will My boy, Bill, he'll be tall and tough as a tree, Bill Like a he'll grow with 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 pot-bellied, baggy-eyed boss him around
I don't give a damn what he does as long as he what he likes He can sit on his tail or work on a rail with a 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 scow along a 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 President of the States be all right, too
Spoken His would like that, but he wouldn't be President unless he wanted to be Not
My boy, Bill he'll be tall and as tough as a tree, Bill Like a he'll grow with his head held high And his feet firm on the ground And you see nobody dare 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 his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped with blood like water Who'll him a peck and call it a kiss And look in his eyes through a Hey, why am I takin' on this? My kid even been born yet
I can see him he's seventeen or so And startin' in to go a girl I can give him of pointers sound, on the way to get 'round any girl I can him a minute 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 mighn't be so bad, at A kid with in her hair A kind of neat and petite tin-type of her mother What a
My little girl, pink and white as and cream is she My little girl is again as bright as girls were meant to be Dozens of boys pursue her, many a lad Does he can to woo her from her faithful 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 she comes Gotta make certain that she won't be dragged up in with a lot o' bums like me She's be sheltered and fed and dressed in the best that money can buy I knew 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