I wonder what he'll of me I he'll call me "the old man" I he'll think I can lick other fella's father Well, I can
I bet that he out to be The spittin' of his dad But he'll have more sense Than his puddin'-headed father had
I'll 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 make a sissy 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 tough as a tree, will Like a tree grow with his head held high And his feet firm on the ground And you won't see nobody dare to try to boss or toss him No pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll 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 with a and hammer in spikes He can ferry a boat on a 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 a scow along a canal Run a cow a corral Or maybe for a carousel Of course, it takes talent to do that
He be a champ of the heavyweights Or a fella that you glue Or President of the States be all right, too
Spoken His mother would like that, but he wouldn't be unless he wanted to be Not
My boy, Bill be tall and as tough as a tree, will Bill Like a tree he'll grow with his head held 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, bully'll boss him around
And I'll be damned if he'll marry his daughter A skinny-lipped virgin with blood like Who'll him a peck and call it a kiss And look in his through a *lorgnette* Hey, why am I takin' on like My kid ain't been born yet
I can see him he's seventeen or so And in to go with a girl I can give him of pointers Very sound, on the way to get any girl I can him Wait a 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 a pair
My girl, pink and white as peaches and cream is she My little girl is again as bright as girls were meant to be Dozens of boys her, many a likely lad what he can to woo her from her faithful 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 get ready before she comes Gotta make certain she won't be dragged up in slums with a lot o' bums like me She's gotta be sheltered and fed and dressed in the that money can buy I never knew how to get money but, try, by God! I'll try I'll go out and make it or it Or it or die