I what he'll think of me I guess he'll me "the old man" I guess he'll I can lick Ev'ry other father Well, I can
I bet he turns out to be The image of his dad But he'll more common sense Than his father ever had
I'll him to wrassle and dive through a wave we go in the morning for our swim His mother can him the way to behave 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 and tough as a tree, will Bill a tree he'll grow with his head held high And his feet firm on the ground And you won't see nobody to try to boss or toss him around No pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll 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 work on a rail with a hammer and hammer in He can ferry a boat on a or peddle a pack on his back Or work up and down the streets of a town 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 might be a champ of the Or a fella that sells you Or President of the States be all right, too
Spoken His mother like that, but he wouldn't be President unless he wanted 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 won't see nobody dare to try to boss or toss him 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 blood like water Who'll him a peck and call it a kiss And look in his eyes a *lorgnette* Hey, why am I takin' on this? My kid ain't even born yet
I can see him he's seventeen or so And in to go with a girl I can give him lots of 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 fun with a son But you got to be a father to a
She mighn't be so bad, at A kid ribbons in her hair A kind of neat and petite little of her mother What a
My little girl, pink and white as peaches and is she My little girl is half as bright 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 young fellas of two and three But my little gets hungry ev'ry night and she comes home to me
I gotta get before she comes Gotta 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 dressed in the best that can buy I never knew how to get money but, try, by God! I'll try go out and make it or steal it Or it or die