[00:00:00] Soliloquy (From "Carousel") - John Raitt/Benny Goodman (本尼·古得曼) [00:00:08] I wonder what he'll think of me [00:00:13] I guess he'll call me the "old man" [00:00:17] I guess he'll think I can lick [00:00:19] Every other feller's father [00:00:22] Well I can [00:00:28] I bet that he'll turn out to be [00:00:32] The spittin' image of his dad [00:00:36] But he'll have more common sense [00:00:38] Than his puddin-headed father ever had [00:00:44] I'll teach him to wrestle [00:00:45] And dive through a wave [00:00:47] When we go in the mornin's for our swim [00:00:49] His mother can teach him [00:00:51] The way to behave [00:00:52] But she won't make a sissy out o' him [00:00:55] Not him Not my boy Not Bill [00:01:09] My boy Bill [00:01:11] I will see that he is named after me I will [00:01:17] My boy Bill He'll be tall [00:01:20] And tough as a tree will Bill [00:01:24] Like a tree he'll grow [00:01:26] With his head held high [00:01:28] And his feet planted firm on the ground [00:01:32] And you won't see nobody dare to try [00:01:36] To boss or toss him around [00:01:39] No pot-bellied baggy-eyed bully [00:01:43] Will boss him around [00:01:48] I don't give a hang what he does [00:01:50] As long as he does what he likes [00:01:52] He can sit on his tail [00:01:53] Or work on a rail [00:01:54] With a hammer hammering spikes [00:01:57] He can ferry a boat on a river [00:01:59] Or peddle a pack on his back [00:02:00] Or work up and down [00:02:01] The streets of a town [00:02:02] With a whip and a horse and a hack [00:02:04] He can haul a scow along a canal [00:02:07] Run a cow around a corral [00:02:10] Or maybe bark for a carousel [00:02:14] Of course it takes talent to do that well [00:02:22] He might be a champ of the heavyweights [00:02:23] Or a feller that sells you glue [00:02:25] Or President of the United States [00:02:29] That'd be all right too [00:02:33] His mother would like that [00:02:34] But he wouldn't be President if he didn't wanna be [00:02:37] Not Bill [00:02:39] My boy Bill He'll be tall [00:02:41] And as tough as a tree will Bill [00:02:46] Like a tree he'll grow [00:02:48] With his head held high [00:02:50] And his feet planted firm on the ground [00:02:54] And you won't see nobody dare to try [00:02:58] To boss him or toss him around [00:03:01] No fat-bottomed flabby-faced [00:03:04] Pot-bellied baggy-eyed bully [00:03:06] Will boss him around [00:03:13] And I'm hanged if he'll marry his boss' daughter [00:03:16] A skinny-lipped virgin with blood like water [00:03:19] Who'll give him a peck [00:03:20] And call it a kiss [00:03:21] And look in his eyes through a lorgnette [00:03:26] Hey why am I talkin' on like this [00:03:30] My kid ain't even been born yet [00:03:33] I can see him when he's seventeen or so [00:03:39] And startin' to go with a girl [00:03:44] I can give him lots of pointers very sound [00:03:49] On the way to get 'round any girl [00:03:56] I can tell him [00:04:00] Wait a minute [00:04:02] Could it be [00:04:04] What the hell [00:04:06] What if waht if he is a girl [00:04:11] A girl [00:04:14] What would I do with her [00:04:16] What could I do for her [00:04:18] A bum with no money [00:04:21] You can have fun with a son [00:04:23] But you gotta be a father to a girl [00:04:33] She mightn't be so bad at that [00:04:36] A kid with ribbons in her hair [00:04:41] A kind o' sweet and petite [00:04:43] Little tin-type of her mother [00:04:46] What a pair [00:05:27] My little girl [00:05:29] Pink and white [00:05:31] As peaches and cream is she [00:05:36] My little girl [00:05:38] Is half again as bright [00:05:42] As girls are meant to be [00:05:47] Dozens of boys pursue her [00:05:52] Many a likely lad does what he can to woo her [00:06:02] From her faithful dad [00:06:08] She has a few [00:06:10] Pink and white young fellers of two or three [00:06:18] But my little girl [00:06:20] Gets hungry every night and she comes home to me [00:06:37] I got to get ready before she comes [00:06:41] I got to make certain that she