Tonalidad: A major
Verse 1
Em
Am
D
Abaug
Am
D
Abaug
I won der
Am
D
what he'll think of me.
Abaug
Am
I guess he'll call
C
Am
D
me the old man.
Abaug
Am
C
I guess he'll think I can lick
every other fella's father.
F
Eb
G
C
Em
C
Abaug
Am
Well, I can.
Em
Am
C
Am
D
I bet that he'll turn out to be
Am
D
the spittin' image of his dad,
Am
C
but he'll have more common sense
than his puddin' headed
Ebaug
C
father ever had.
Am
I'll teach him to wrestle and
F#dim
C
dive through a wave
Am
E
D
when we go in the mornings for a swim.
G
His mother can teach him
C
the way to behave,
Daug
D
A
but she won't make a sissy out of him.
Aaug
D
Not him!
Ebaug
C
G
Ebaug
C
Not Bill! Bill!
C
Bb
C
F
I will see that he's named after me.
F#dim
C
I will!
Bb
C
he'll be tall and as tough as a tree
F
F#dim
Gm
C
Will Bill, like a tree,
F
Aaug
A
he'll grow with his head held high
Bb
D
And his feet planted firm on the ground
Dm
G
C
F
C
An d you won't see nobody dare
F
C
G
to try to boss him
C
or toss him around
Bb
F
Gm
C
No pot -bellied, baggy -eyed bully
F
will boss him around
I don't give a damn what he does,
as long as he does what he likes
He can sit on his tail or work on a rail
Ab
with a hammer, a hammer and spikes
He can ferry a boat on a river
or pedal a pack on his back
C
Or work up and down the
F
streets of a town
C
F
with a whip and a horse and a hack
Fm
G
He can haul a scow along a canal,
Fm
G
run a cow around a corral,
Em
F#
or maybe bark for a carousel.
Em
C
Of course it takes talent to do that well.
F
He might be a champ of the heavyweights,
or a fella that sells you glue,
Dm
G
Or President of the United States,
Bb
Gm
F#
that'd be alright too.
F
Bb
His mother would like that,
C
but he wouldn't be President
F
C
unless he wanted to be. Not Bill!
Bb
C
he'll be tall and as tough as a tree.
F
Gm
C
We'll build like a tree,
F
A
he'll grow with his head held high
Bb
Dm
D
and his feet planted firm on the ground
Dm
C
F
C
And you won't see nobody dare
F
C
to try to boss him
G
C
or toss him around
Bb
F
Gm
No fat -bottomed flabby -faced
Am
Gm
C
pot -bellied baggy -eyed bully will
G
Gm
boss him around
G
And I'm damned if he'll marry
his boss's daughter
A skinny -lipped virgin
with blood like water
Cm
Who'll give him a peck
G
an d call it a kiss
D
And look in his eye
F
C
D
s through a lorgnette
Bb
D
Why am I taking on like this?
Cm
Gm
My kid ain't even been born yet!
Eb
Cm
Eb
I can see him when he's
seventeen or so,
Cm
Eb
Cm
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
and starting in to go with a girl.
Eb
Cm
I can give him lots of pointers,
Cm
Em
B
on the way to get round any girl.
E
Eb
Well, I can tell him.
Wait a minute.
Fm
Could it be?
Ab
Fm
Bb
D
C
Daug
What if he is a girl?
Gm
Eb
Cm
C
Daug
Gm
C
Oh, Bill, what would I do with her,
Gm
what could I do for her,
C
a bum with no money?
Bb
You can have fun with a son,
Eb
F
C#
but you got ta be a father to a
Aaug
Faug
Bb
F#
Daug
girl.
D
G
Gm
C
She mightn't be so bad at that,
Gm
G
Gm
C
a kid with ribbons in her hair.
Dm
Bb
A kind of neat an d petite little
Gm
Cm
F
tintype of her mother.
C#
F
Bb
Bbm
Bb
What a pair!
Eb
My little girl,
Ebaug
G
Ab
Ink and white as peaches and cream,
Gm
Eb
Ab
My little girl is half again
Gbdim
Bb
Eb
Fm
E
as bright as girls are meant to be.
Bb
Gm
Eb
Ab
Dozens of boys pursue her,
Bb
Eb
Am
D
G
Bm
G
many a likely lad does what he can
Am
D
G
Ebaug
to woo her from her faith
C
F
Faug
Bbm
ful dad.
Bb
Eb
Ebaug
She has a few pink an
G
Fm
d white young fellas,
Bb
oh two or three,
Eb
Ab
but my little girl gets hungry
Gbdim
Gm
Bb
F
every night.
Eb
Bb
Eb
C#
Ebaug
B
And she comes home to me.
G
B
I gotta get ready before she comes.
Bb
D
I gotta make certain that she
A
Gbm
won't be dragged up in slums
D
Db
with a lot of bums like me.
Gb
She's gotta be sheltered and
fed and dressed
Gb
F#
in the best that money can buy.
B
F#
I never knew how to get money,
F#m
Abm
Gbm
but I'll try, by God, I'll try.
Db
A#
B
I'll go out and make it,
F#
B
F#
F#m
F#
Or steal it, or take it, or die!
F#
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