I what he'll think of me I guess call me "the old man" I guess 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 his puddin'-headed father ever had
I'll teach him to wrassle and dive through a When we go in the for our swim 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 see that he is named after me, I will My boy, Bill, he'll be tall and tough as a tree, Bill Like a tree he'll grow with his head 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, baggy-eyed bully'll boss him
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 with a hammer and hammer in spikes He can a boat 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 maybe bark for a Of course, it takes to do that well
He might be a champ of the Or a fella sells you glue Or of the United 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 he'll be tall and as as a tree, will Bill Like a tree grow with his head held high And his feet firm on the ground And you won't see dare to try to boss or toss him around No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, pot-bellied, baggy-eyed boss him around
And be damned 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 on like this? My kid even been born yet
I can see him when he's or so And startin' in to go a girl I can him lots of pointers Very sound, on the way to get 'round any I can him Wait a 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 be so bad, at that A kid with ribbons in her A kind of and petite little tin-type of her mother What a
My little girl, pink and white as peaches and is she My little girl is half again as bright as girls were to be of boys pursue her, many a likely lad Does what he can to woo her from her dad
She has a few pink and white fellas of two and three But my little girl gets hungry ev'ry night and she home to me
I get ready before she comes Gotta make certain that she won't be up in slums 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 make it or it Or it or die