I wonder he'll think 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 he turns out to be The spittin' of his dad But he'll have more sense Than his puddin'-headed ever had
I'll teach him to wrassle and through a wave When we go in the for our swim His can teach him the way to behave But she make 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 tough as a tree, Bill Like a he'll grow with his head held high And his feet planted on the ground And you see nobody dare to try to boss or toss him around 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 a hammer and hammer in spikes He can ferry a boat on a river or peddle a pack on his Or work up and down the streets of a town with a 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 to do that well
He might be a 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 be President unless he wanted to be Not
My boy, he'll be tall and as tough as a tree, will Bill Like a tree he'll grow his head held high And his feet planted on the ground And you won't see nobody 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 damned if he'll his boss's daughter A virgin with blood like water Who'll give him a peck and call it a And in his eyes through a *lorgnette* Hey, why am I takin' on like My kid ain't even born yet
I can see him when seventeen or so And startin' in to go with a I can him lots of pointers sound, on the way to get 'round any girl 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 to a girl
She be so bad, at that A kid ribbons in her hair A kind of neat and petite little tin-type of her What a
My little girl, pink and white as peaches and is she My little is half again as bright as girls were meant to be Dozens of boys 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 and she comes home to me
I gotta get ready before she Gotta make certain that she won't be dragged up in slums with a lot o' bums me gotta be sheltered and fed and dressed in the best that money can buy I never knew how to get but, I'll try, by God! I'll try I'll go out and it or steal it Or it or die