Soliloquy - Frank Sinatra

[00:10.37]I wonder what he'll think of me
[00:14.82]I guess he'll call me the old man
[00:19.55]I guess he'll think I can lick
[00:21.98]Every other feller's father
[00:24.82]Well
[00:26.98]I can
[00:31.24]I bet that he'll turn out to be
[00:35.69]The spittin' image of his dad
[00:40.25]But he'll have more common sense
[00:43.04]Than his pudding headed father ever had
[00:47.71]I'll teach him to wrestle
[00:52.56]And dive through a wave
[00:54.12]When we go in the mornings for our swim
[00:57.21]His mother can teach him
[00:58.68]The way to behave
[00:59.99]But she won't make a sissy out o' him
[01:02.63]Not him
[01:04.47]Not my boy
[01:05.83]Not bill
[01:11.33]Bill
[01:18.51]I will see that he is named after me
[01:23.84]I will
[01:26.46]My boy
[01:27.53]Bill
[01:28.2]He'll be tall
[01:29.79]And tough as a tree
[01:32.18]Will bill
[01:34.28]Like a tree he'll grow
[01:36.09]With his head held high
[01:38.69]And his feet planted firm on the ground
[01:42.8]And you won't see nobody dare to try
[01:47.89]To boss or toss him around
[01:50.520004]No pot bellied
[01:52.869995]Baggy eyed bully will toss him around
[02:01.23]I don't give a d**n what he does
[02:03.66]As long as he does what he likes
[02:05.89]He can sit on his tail
[02:07.38]Or work on a rail
[02:12.48]With a hammer
[02:14.73]Hammering spikes
[02:15.85]He can ferry a boat on a river
[02:22.12]Or peddle a pack on his back
[02:25.70999]Or work up and down
[02:28.95]The streets of a town
[02:33.31]With a whip and a horse and a hack
[02:39.3]He can haul a scow along a canal
[02:41.45]Run a cow around a corral
[02:43.86]Or maybe bark for a carousel
[02:48.7]Of course it takes talent to do that well
[02:54.44]He might be a champ of the heavyweights
[02:56.87]Or a feller that sells you glue
[03:02.76]Or president of the united states
[03:06.16]That'd be all right too
[03:08.89]His mother would like that
[03:12.56]But he wouldn't be president unless he wanted to be
[03:28.45]Not bill
[03:36.14]And I'll be d**ned if he'll marry the boss' daughter
[03:39.68]A skinny lipped virgin with blood like water
[03:42.92]Who'll give him a peck
[03:44.22]And call it a kiss
[03:46.25]And look in his eyes through a lorgnette
[03:51.91]Say
[03:53.25]Why am I talkin' on like this
[03:55.67]My kid ain't even been born
[03:58.18]Yet
[03:59.41]I can see him when he's seventeen or so
[04:04.46]And startin' to go with a girl
[04:09.43]I can give him lots of pointers
[04:11.22]Very sound
[04:13.73]On the way to get 'round any girl
[04:19.13]I can tell him
[04:21.92]Wait a minute
[04:24.84]Could it be
[04:27.22]What the hell
[04:28.84]What if he is a girl
[04:31.09]What would I do with her
[04:37.1]What could I do for her
[04:40.91998]A bum with no money
[04:44.74]You can have fun with a son
[04:48.15]But you got to be a father to a girl
[04:57.28]She mightn't be so bad at that
[05:01.41]A kid with ribbons in her hair
[05:06.76]A kind o' neat and petite
[05:11.33]Little tin type of her mother
[05:23.86]What a pair
[05:28.11]I can just hear myself bragging about her
[05:44.98]My little girl
[05:50.16998]Pink and white
[05:58.47]As peaches and cream is she
[06:06.73]My little girl
[06:09.16]Is half again as bright
[06:12.82]As girls are meant to be
[06:19.72]Dozens of boys pursue her
[06:24.44]Many a likely lad does what he can to woo her
[06:31.46]From her faithful dad
[06:37.15]She has a few
[06:43.94]Pink and white young fellers of two and three
[06:51.64]But my little girl
[06:54.7]Gets hungry every night and she comes home to me
[07:07.35]I got to get ready before she comes
[07:11.81]I got to make certain that she won't be dragged up in slums
[07:18.01]With a lot of bums like me
[07:24.11]She's got to be sheltered
[07:26.33]And be dressed in the best money can buy
[07:31.69]I never knew how to get money
[07:35.2]But
[07:35.61]I'll try
[07:36.03]By god
[07:43.8]I'll try
[07:44.16998]I'll go out and make it or steal it
[07:47.33002]Or take it or die