[00:00:00] Soliloquy (Carousel) - Thomas Hampson (汤玛斯·汉普森) [00:00:09] 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] Ev'ry other feller's father [00:00:22] Well i can [00:00:27] I bet that he'll turn out to be [00:00:31] 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 [00:00:45] I'll teach him to wrestle [00:00:46] And dive through a wave [00:00:48] When we go in the mornin's for our swim [00:00:51] His mother can teach him [00:00:53] The way to behave [00:00:54] But she won't make a sissy out o him [00:00:58] Not him not my boy not bill [00:01:07] Bill my boy bill [00:01:10] I will see that he is named after me i will [00:01:17] My boy bill he'll be tall [00:01:19] 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 [00:01:31] And you won't see nobody dare to try [00:01:35] To boss him or toss him around [00:01:39] No pot bellied baggy eyed bully [00:01:42] Will boss him around [00:01:48] I don't give a hang what he does [00:01:51] As long as he does what he likes [00:01:52] He can sit on his tail [00:01:54] Or work on a rail [00:01:55] With a hammer hammering spikes [00:01:58] He can ferry a boat on a river [00:02:00] Or peddle a pack on his back [00:02:02] Or work up and down [00:02:03] The streets of a town [00:02:04] With a whip and a horse and a hack [00:02:07] He can haul a scow along a canl [00:02:10] Run a cow around a corral [00:02:14] Or maybe bark for a carousel [00:02:18] Of course it takes talent to do that well [00:02:24] He might be a champ of the heavyweights [00:02:26] Or a feller that sells you glue [00:02:28] Or president of the united states [00:02:32] That'd be all right too [00:02:34] His mother would like that [00:02:35] But he wouldn't be president if he didn't wanna be [00:02:38] Not bill [00:02:41] My boy bill he'll be tall [00:02:43] And as tough as a tree will bill [00:02:47] Like a tree he'll grow [00:02:49] With his head held high [00:02:51] And his feet planted firm on the ground [00:02:55] And you won't see nobody dare to try [00:02:59] To boss him or toss him around [00:03:02] No fat bottomed flabby faced [00:03:05] Pot bellied baggy eyed bully [00:03:08] Will boss him around [00:03:16] And i'm hanged if he'll marry his boss daughter [00:03:19] A skinny lipped virgin with blood like water [00:03:22] Who'll give him a peck [00:03:23] And call it a kiss [00:03:25] And look in his eyes through a lorgnette [00:03:29] Hey why am i talkin on like this [00:03:32] My kid ain't even been born yet [00:03:36] I can see him when he's seventeen or so [00:03:42] And startin to go with a girl [00:03:49] I can give him lots of pointers very sound [00:03:54] On the way to get round any girl [00:04:02] I can tell him [00:04:05] Wait a minute [00:04:07] Could it be [00:04:10] What the hell [00:04:12] What if he [00:04:14] He is a girl [00:04:22] Bill oh bill [00:04:27] What would i do with her [00:04:29] What could i do for her [00:04:31] Me a bum with no money [00:04:35] You can have fun with a son [00:04:38] But you gotta be a father to a girl [00:04:46] She mightn't be so bad at that [00:04:51] A kid with ribbons in her hair [00:04:56] A kind o sweett and petite [00:04:58] Little tin type of her mother [00:05:01] What a pair [00:05:12] My little girl [00:05:15] Pink and white [00:05:18] As peaches and cream is she [00:05:25] My little girl [00:05:28] Is half again as bright [00:05:32] As girls are meant to be [00:05:40] Dozens of boys pursue her [00:05:46] Many a likely lad does what he can to woo her [00:05:58] From her faithful dad [00:06:06] She has a few [00:06:10] Pink and white young fellers of two and three [00:06:18] But my little girl [00:06:22] Gets hungry ev'ry night and she comes home to me [00:06:42] I got to get ready before she comes [00:06:46] I got to make certain that she [00:06:48] Won't be dragged up in slums [00:06:50] With a lot o bums like me