Tonart: G major•
Verse 1
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When I found out that we
were playing
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with the fantastic Philharmonic,
there was a piece of music
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that I would like to do.
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It's about, like, being a father.
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Alan, if you would, please.
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Some Carousel.
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I wonder what he'll think of me
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I bet he'll call me the old man
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And I'll bet he'll think I can lick any other
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fella's father well I can
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And I bet that he turns out to be
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the spittin' image of his dad
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And 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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And I'll teach him to wrestle
and dive through wave
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When we go in the mornings for a swim
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His mother can teach him
the way to behave
But she won't make a sissy out of him
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Not him, not my boy,
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not Bill
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Cause 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, he'll be tall
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and as tough as a tree Will Bill
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And 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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And you won't see nobody dare to try
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To force him or toss him around
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No pop -bellied, baggy -eyed bully
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Will force him around
I don't give a damn what he does
Just 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 and hammer and spikes
He can ferry a boat on a river
Or pedal a pack on his back,
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or just walk up and down
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with a whip and a horse and a hack.
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He can hold a scowl along a canal,
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or run a cow around the corral,
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or maybe sing an d play the guitar.
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Of course, doing that,
you can't get too far.
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He might be champ of the heavyweights,
or a fella that sells you glue.
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A president of the United States,
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that'd be all right, too
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But he wouldn't be president
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unless he wanted to be, not my Bill
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Cause my boy Bill, he'll be tall
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and as tough as a tree will build
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And 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
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To boss him or toss him around
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No!
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Potbellied, flabby -faced,
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baggy -eyed, pot -bellied bully
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Don't boss him around
And I'm damned if you'll
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marry his boss's daughter
A skinny -lipped virgin with
blood like water
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We'll give him a peck and call it a kiss
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and look in his eyes through a lorn yet
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But say what am I talking about?
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My kid ain't even been born yet,
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but I can see him when he's 17 or so
And just starting in to go with a girl
And I can give him lots
of pointers very sound
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On the way to get round any girl,
Yeah, Dad can tell him.
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But what if him turns out
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to be a girl?
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What do you say to a girl
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that you can't say to the boy?
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You can have fun with a son,
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but you've got to 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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My little girl, pink and bright,
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as peaches and cream as she
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And my little girl is half again
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as bright as girls were meant to be
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Yes, dozens of boys
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pursue her
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There's many a likely lad,
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does what he can to woo her,
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from her fateful dad.
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pink and bright young fellas,
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Of two and three
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Oh, but my little girl
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Gets hungry every night
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And she comes home to me
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I gotta get ready before she comes
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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, my 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!
Thank you very much.
What a great man.
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