[00:00:00] Soliloquy - Gordon MacRae/Shirley Jones/Robert Rounseville [00:00:01] Written by:Richard Rodgers [00:00:08] I wonder what he'll think of me [00:00:11] I guess he'll call me the old man [00:00:16] I guess he'll think I can lick [00:00:18] Every other feller's father [00:00:21] Well I can [00:00:26] I bet that he'll turn out to be [00:00:30] The spittin' image of his dad [00:00:35] But he'll have more common sense [00:00:37] Than his puddin headed father ever had [00:00:43] I'll teach him to wrestle [00:00:44] And dive through a wave [00:00:45] When we go in the mornin's for our swim [00:00:48] His mother can teach him [00:00:49] The way to behave [00:00:51] But she won't make a sissy out o' him [00:00:54] 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 [00:01:14] Will [00:01:16] My boy bill he'll be tall [00:01:18] And tough as a tree will bill [00:01:23] Like a tree he'll grow [00:01:25] With his head held high [00:01:27] And his feet planted firm on the ground [00:01:30] And you won't see nobody dare to try [00:01:34] To boss or toss him around [00:01:37] No pot bellied baggy eyed bully [00:01:41] Will boss him around [00:01:46] I don't give a hang what he does [00:01:48] As long as he does what he likes [00:01:50] He can sit on his tail [00:01:51] Or work on a rail [00:01:52] With a hammer hammering spikes [00:01:55] He can ferry a boat on a river [00:01:57] Or peddle a pack on his back [00:01:59] Or work up and down [00:02:00] The streets of a town [00:02:01] With a whip and a horse and a hack [00:02:03] He can haul a scow along a canal [00:02:07] Run a cow around a corral [00:02:11] Or maybe bark for a carousel [00:02:16] Of course it takes talent to do that well [00:02:23] Aha ha ha ha [00:02:25] 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 [00:02:36] His mother would like that [00:02:38] But he wouldn't be president if he didn't wanna be [00:02:40] Not bill [00:02:42] My boy bill he'll be tall [00:02:45] And as tough as a tree will bill [00:02:49] Like a tree he'll grow [00:02:51] With his head held high [00:02:53] And his feet planted firm on the ground [00:02:57] And you won't see nobody dare to try [00:03:01] To boss him or toss him around [00:03:04] No fat bottomed flabby faced [00:03:07] Pot bellied baggy eyed bully [00:03:10] 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 [00:03:24] And look in his eyes through a lorgnette [00:03:30] Hey why am I talkin' on like this [00:03:34] My kid ain't even been born yet [00:03:38] I can see him when he's seventeen or so [00:03:43] And startin' to go with a girl [00:03:48] I can give him lots of pointers very sound [00:03:53] On the way to get 'round any girl [00:04:00] I can tell him [00:04:03] Wait a minute [00:04:05] Could it be [00:04:07] What the hell [00:04:10] What if he is a girl [00:04:25] What would I do with her [00:04:27] What could I do for her [00:04:30] A bum with no money [00:04:34] You can have fun with a son [00:04:38] But you gotta be a father to a girl [00:04:50] She mightn't be so bad at that [00:04:55] A kid with ribbons in her hair [00:05:00] A kind o' sweet and petite [00:05:03] Little tin type of her mother [00:05:07] What a pair [00:05:16] My little girl [00:05:20] Pink and white [00:05:22] As peaches and cream is she [00:05:27] My little girl [00:05:30] Is half again as bright [00:05:35] As girls are meant to be [00:05:42] Dozens of boys pursue her [00:05:47] Many a likely lad does what he can to woo [00:05:56] Her [00:05:58] From her faithful dad [00:06:05] She has a few [00:06:08] Pink and white young fellers of two or three [00:06:17] But my little girl [00:06:20] Gets hungry every night and she comes home to me [00:06:41] I got to get ready before she comes [00:06:45] I got to make certain that she [00:06:48] Won't be dragged up in slums