Soliloquy (From Carousel)-Heather MacRae

[ti:Soliloquy (From Carousel)] [ar:Heather MacRae] [al:Songs For My Father] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Soliloquy (From Carousel) - Heather MacRae [00:07.54]I wonder what think he'll of me [00:10.37] [00:11.42]I guess he'll call me the old man [00:15.07]I guess he'll think i can lick [00:17.59]Every other feller's father [00:20.17]Well i can [00:22.70] [00:24.41]I bet that he'll turn out to be [00:27.03] [00:27.96]The spitting image of his dad [00:31.31]But he'll have more common sense [00:33.97]Than his puddin headed father ever had [00:38.36] [00:40.16]I'll teach him to wrassle [00:41.31]And dive through a wave [00:42.65]When we go in the morning for our swim [00:44.97] [00:45.54]His mother can teach him [00:46.91]The way to behave [00:47.97]But she won't make a sissy out o him [00:49.88] [00:50.46]Not him not my boy not bill [00:56.11] [00:59.80]My boy bill i will see that he is named after me i will [01:05.72] [01:07.34]My boy bill he'll be tall [01:09.39]And tough as a tree will bill [01:13.71]Like a tree he'll grow [01:15.56]With his head held high [01:17.19]And his feet planted firm on the ground [01:20.55]And you won't see nobody dare to try [01:24.01]To boss or toss him around [01:26.76]No pot bellied baggy eyed bully'll toss him around [01:33.79] [01:35.76]Don't give i a damn what he does [01:37.56]As long as he does what he likes [01:39.42]He can sit on his tail [01:40.74]Or work on a rail [01:41.75]A hammer with hammering spikes [01:44.15]He can ferry a boat on a river [01:46.13]Or peddle a pack on his back [01:47.95]Or work up and down [01:48.92]The streets of a town [01:49.81]With a whip and a horse and a hack [01:52.87]He can haul a scow along a canal [01:56.93] [01:57.52]Run a cow around a corral [02:01.02] [02:01.73]Or maybe bark for a carousel [02:05.07] [02:06.18]Of course it takes talent to do that well [02:11.76] [02:12.52]He might be a champ of the heavy weights [02:15.21]Or a feller that sells you glue [02:17.05]Or president of the united states [02:20.30] [02:20.96]That'd be all right too [02:23.95]His mother would like that [02:25.20]But he wouldn't be president unless he wanted to be [02:27.53] [02:28.05]Not bill [02:29.09] [02:30.34]My boy bill he'll be tall [02:32.42]And as tough as a tree will bill [02:35.63] [02:36.53]Like a tree he'll grow [02:38.28]With his head held high [02:39.96]And his feet planted firm on the ground [02:42.44] [02:43.41]And you won't see nobody dare to try [02:46.94]To boss or toss him around [02:49.13] [02:49.71]No fat bottomed flabby faced pot bellied baggy eyed bastard'll boss [02:55.95]Him around [03:00.44] [03:02.75]And i'll be damned if he'll marry the boss daughter [03:05.35]A skinny lipped virgin with blood like water [03:07.75]Who'll give him a peck [03:08.97]And call it a kiss [03:10.29]And look in his eyes through a lorgnet [03:14.62]Say why am i talking on like this [03:18.73]My kid ain't even been yetborn [03:22.36]I can see him when he's seventeen or so [03:28.11] [03:28.98]And starting to go with a girl [03:32.84] [03:34.93]I can give him lots of pointers very sound [03:39.08] [03:40.06]On the way to get round any girl [03:45.92] [03:46.98]I can tell him [03:48.92] [03:50.76]Wait a minute [03:51.61] [03:52.88]Could it be [03:53.52] [03:55.27]What the hell [03:55.90] [03:57.48]If he what is a girl [04:01.25] [04:16.70]You can have fun with a son [04:19.75]But you got to be a father to a girl [04:27.09] [04:28.71]She mighn't be so bad at that [04:31.58] [04:32.44]A kid with ribbons in her hair [04:36.33]A kind o neat and petite [04:39.79] [04:40.58]Little tin type of her mother [04:43.78] [04:44.46]What a pair [04:51.86] [04:53.56]My little girl [04:57.11] [04:58.06]Pink and white [05:00.08] [05:00.95]As peaches and cream is she [05:05.92] [05:07.45]My little girl [05:09.16] [05:10.08]Is half again as bright [05:13.23] [05:14.42]As girls are meant to be [05:20.92] [05:22.51]Dozens of boys pursue her [05:28.29]Many a likely lad does what he can to woo her [05:38.85] [05:39.58]From her faithful dad [05:44.58] [05:48.11]She has a few [05:52.14]Pink and white young fellers of two and three [06:00.99] [06:01.52]But my little girl [06:04.81]Gets hungry every night and she come home to me [06:19.33] [06:24.98]I got to get ready before she comes [06:29.10]I got to make certain that she [06:32.83]Won't be dragged up in slums [06:34.73]With a lot o bums like me [06:40.17]She's got to be sheltered [06:42.82]And be dressed in the best money can buy [06:47.75]I never knew how to get money [06:51.58]But i'll try by god i'll try [06:57.20]I'll go out and make it or steal it [07:01.16]Or take it or die