I what he'll think of me I he'll 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 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 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 he is named after me, I will My boy, Bill, he'll be tall and as a tree, will Bill Like a he'll 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 him around No pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll boss him
I don't a damn what he does as long as he does what he likes He can sit on his tail or work on a rail with a hammer and in spikes He can ferry a boat on a river or peddle a on his back Or up and down the streets of a town with a whip and a horse and a hack
He can haul a scow a canal Run a cow a corral Or maybe bark for a 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 United be all right, too
Spoken His mother would like that, but he wouldn't be President unless he to be Not
My boy, Bill be tall and as tough as a tree, will Bill Like a tree he'll grow with his held high And his feet planted firm on the And you won't see 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 if he'll marry his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped virgin with like water Who'll give him a peck and it a kiss And look in his eyes through a Hey, why am I takin' on like My kid ain't even been yet
I can see him he's seventeen or so And in to go with 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 to a girl
She be so bad, at that A kid with in her hair A kind of and petite little tin-type of her mother What a
My girl, pink and white as peaches and cream is she My little girl is half again as as girls were meant to be Dozens of pursue her, many a likely lad what he can to woo her from her faithful dad
She has a few pink and white fellas of two and three But my little girl gets ev'ry night and she comes home to me
I get ready before she comes Gotta make certain that she won't be dragged up in slums with a lot o' bums 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 go out and make it or steal it Or it or die