Tonalité : D major
Verse 1
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I won der
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what you think of me.
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I guess you call me the old man.
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I guess you think I can lick every
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other fella's father.
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Well, I can.
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I bet that he'll turn out to be
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the spitting image of his dad,
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but he'll have more common sense
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than his puddin' -headed
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father ever had.
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I'll teach him to wrestle and
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dive through a wave
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when we go in the mornings for our swim.
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His mother can teach him the way to behave,
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but she won't make a sissy out of him.
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Not him, not my boy, not Bill! Bill.
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My boy Bill,
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I will see that he's named after me, I will.
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My boy Bill,
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he'll be tall and as tough as a tree
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Well, Bill, like a tree he'll grow
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with his head held high
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And his feet planted firm on the ground
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An d you won't see nobody
dare to try
To boss him or toss him around
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The pot -bellied, baggy -eyed bully'll
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boss him around
I don't give a darn what he does
As long as he does what he likes
He can sit on his tail or
work on a rail
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With a hammer, a hammer and spikes
He can ferry a boat on a river
Or pedal a pack on his back
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Or work up and down the
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streets of a town
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With a whip and a horse and a hack
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He can haul a scow along a canal,
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run a cow around a corral,
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or maybe bark for a carousel.
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Of course, it takes talent to do that well.
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He might be a champ of the heavyweights,
or a fellow that sells you glue,
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or President of the United States.
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That'd be all right, too. Yeah,
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his mother would like that,
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but he wouldn't be present
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unless he wanted to be.
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Not Bill.
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My boy Bill,
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he'll be tall and as tough as a tree. Will Bill?
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Like a tree,
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he'll grow with his head held high
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and his feet planted firm on the ground.
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An d you won't see nobody dare to try
To boss him or toss him around
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No, fat -bottomed, flabby -faced,
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pot -bellied, baggy -eyed bully
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Oh, boss him around
And I'm darned if he'll marry his
boss's daughter
A skinny -lipped virgin with
blood like water
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Give him a peck and call it a kiss
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And look in his eyes through a lorgnette
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Say, why am I taking on like this?
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My kid ain't even been born yet
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I can see him when he's
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seventeen or so
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And starting in to go with a girl
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I can give him lots of pointers,
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very sound,
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on the way to get round and eager.
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I can tell him...
Wait a minute.
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Could it be?
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What the heck?
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What if he's a girl?
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Bill. Oh, Bill.
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What would I do with her?
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What could I do for her?
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Me, a bum with no money?
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You can't have fun with a son
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But you got ta be a father
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To a girl
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She mightn't be so bad at that
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A kid with ribbons in her hair
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A kind of neat and petite
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Little tin type of her mother
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What a pair
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I can just hear myself
just bragging about her now.
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My little girl
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Pink and white
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As peaches and cream
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Is she
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My little girl
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Is half again as bright
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As girls are meant to be
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Dozens of boys pursue her ,
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many a likely lad.
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He does what he can to woo her
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from her faithful dad.
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She has a few faint and white
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young fel las of two or three.
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But my little girl gets hungry
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every night.
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And she comes home to me
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My little girl
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My little girl
I gotta get ready before she comes
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I gotta make certain that she
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Won't be dragged up in slums
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With a lot of bums like me
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She's gotta be sheltered and fed and
dressed in the best that money can buy.
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I never knew how to get money,
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but I'll try, thank God, I'll try.
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I'll go out and make it, or steal it,
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or take it, or die!
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