I wonder what think of me I guess call me "the old man" I he'll think I can lick Ev'ry fella's father Well, I can
I bet he turns 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 through a When we go in the morning for our His can teach him the way to behave But she won't make a out o' him Not him! Not my boy! Not
Bill. I will see that he is named after me, I My boy, Bill, be tall and tough as a tree, will Bill a tree he'll grow with his head held high And his feet planted on the ground And you won't see dare to try to boss or toss him around No pot-bellied, baggy-eyed boss him around
I don't give a damn what he 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 work up and 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 talent to do that well
He might be a champ of the Or a fella that sells you Or of the United States be all right, too
Spoken His mother would that, but he wouldn't 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 firm on the ground And you won't see nobody dare to try to or toss him around No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, pot-bellied, bully'll boss him around
And be damned if he'll marry his boss's daughter A skinny-lipped virgin with 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 like My kid even been born yet
I can see him when he's or so And startin' in to go 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 to a girl
She mighn't be so bad, at A kid with ribbons in her A kind of neat and petite tin-type of her mother What a
My little girl, pink and white as and cream is she My girl is half again as bright as girls were meant to be Dozens of boys pursue her, many a lad Does he can to woo her from her faithful dad
She has a few pink and white young of two and three But my little girl gets hungry ev'ry and she comes home to me
I gotta get before she comes make 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 money can buy I never knew how to get but, I'll try, by God! I'll try I'll go out and make it or it Or it or die