I what he'll think of me I guess call me "the old man" I guess think 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 father had
I'll teach him to wrassle and through a wave When we go in the morning for our His mother can teach him the way to But she won't make a out o' him Not him! Not my boy! Not
Bill. I will see he is named after me, I will My boy, Bill, he'll be tall and 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, bully'll boss 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 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 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 bark for a carousel Of course, it takes talent to do that
He might be a champ of the Or a fella sells you glue Or President of the 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 and as tough as a tree, will Bill Like a tree grow with his head held high And his planted 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 boss him around
And I'll be if he'll marry his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped virgin with blood water Who'll give him a peck and 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 when seventeen or so And startin' in to go 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 fun with a son But you got to be a to a girl
She mighn't be so bad, at A kid ribbons in her hair A of neat and petite little tin-type of her mother What a
My little girl, pink and as peaches 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 her faithful dad
She has a few and white young fellas of two and three But my little girl gets hungry ev'ry night and she home to me
I gotta get ready she comes 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 make it or it Or it or die