Soliloquy-John Raitt/Howard Keel

[ti:Soliloquy] [ar:John Raitt] [al:Crooners Of The Big Band Era] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Soliloquy (神々が恋した幻想郷) - John Raitt/Howard Keel [00:09.79]I wonder what he'll think of me [00:13.42]I guess he'll call me the "old man" [00:17.62] [00:18.19]I guess he'll think I can lick [00:20.69]Every other feller's father [00:23.00]Well I can [00:28.23] [00:28.93]I bet that he'll turn out to be [00:33.43]The spittin' image of his dad [00:37.55]But he'll have more common sense [00:40.24]Than his puddin-headed father ever had [00:45.10]I'll teach him to wrestle [00:47.07]And dive through a wave [00:48.35]When we go in the mornin's for our swim [00:50.88]His mother can teach him [00:52.52]The way to behave [00:53.80]But she won't make a sissy out o' him [00:56.06] [00:56.78]Not him Not my boy Not Bill [01:04.65] [01:10.78]My boy Bill [01:12.54]I will see that he is named after me I will [01:17.31] [01:18.90]My boy Bill He'll be tall [01:21.45]And tough as a tree will Bill [01:25.08] [01:25.98]Like a tree he'll grow [01:28.39]With his head held high [01:30.24]And his feet planted firm on the ground [01:34.07]And you won't see nobody dare to try [01:38.23]To boss or toss him around [01:40.86] [01:41.41]No pot-bellied baggy-eyed bully [01:45.25]Will boss him around [01:48.23] [01:50.13]I don't give a hang what he does [01:52.05]As long as he does what he likes [01:53.98]He can sit on his tail [01:55.18]Or work on a rail [01:56.04]With a hammer hammering spikes [01:58.63] [01:59.14]He can ferry a boat on a river [02:00.85]Or peddle a pack on his back [02:02.85]Or work up and down [02:03.90]The streets of a town [02:04.85]With a whip and a horse and a hack [02:06.95]He can haul a scow along a canal [02:09.17] [02:09.71]Run a cow around a corral [02:12.40]Or maybe bark for a carousel [02:15.32] [02:16.48]Of course it takes talent to do that well [02:23.12] [02:24.10]He might be a champ of the heavyweights [02:25.59]Or a feller that sells you glue [02:27.41] [02:28.00]Or President of the United States [02:30.87] [02:31.62]That'd be all right too [02:34.45] [02:35.04]His mother would like that [02:36.11] [02:36.74]But he wouldn't be President if he didn't wanna be [02:38.69] [02:39.20]Not Bill [02:39.86] [02:41.72]My boy Bill He'll be tall [02:44.07]And as tough as a tree will Bill [02:47.75] [02:48.51]Like a tree he'll grow [02:51.11]With his head held high [02:52.96]And his feet planted firm on the ground [02:56.54]And you won't see nobody dare to try [03:00.81]To boss him or toss him around [03:03.41] [03:03.98]No fat-bottomed flabby-faced [03:06.89]Pot-bellied baggy-eyed bully [03:09.59]Will boss him around [03:11.87] [03:15.89]And I'm hanged if he'll marry his boss' daughter [03:18.87]A skinny-lipped virgin with blood like water [03:21.85]Who'll give him a peck [03:23.15]And call it a kiss [03:24.56]And look in his eyes through a lorgnette [03:27.47] [03:28.58]Hey why am I talkin' on like this [03:32.28] [03:33.25]My kid ain't even been born yet [03:35.40] [03:36.64]I can see him when he's seventeen or so [03:41.61] [03:42.12]And startin' to go with a girl [03:46.28] [03:47.81]I can give him lots of pointers very sound [03:52.25] [03:52.77]On the way to get 'round any girl [03:58.82] [03:59.59]I can tell him [04:01.34] [04:03.17]Wait a minute [04:03.91] [04:05.54]Could it be [04:06.24] [04:07.48]What the hell [04:08.16] [04:09.39]What if he is a girl [04:12.18] [04:17.64]What would I do with her [04:18.79] [04:19.79]What could I do for her [04:20.86] [04:21.96]A bum with no money [04:23.66] [04:24.82]You can have fun with a son [04:27.30]But you gotta be a father to a girl [04:34.68] [04:36.31]She mightn't be so bad at that [04:39.42] [04:40.23]A kid with ribbons in her hair [04:43.88] [04:44.47]A kind o' sweet and petite [04:47.13]Little tin-type of her mother [04:49.04] [04:49.85]What a pair [04:55.74] [05:30.73]My little girl [05:32.50] [05:33.36]Pink and white [05:35.52]As peaches and cream is she [05:40.67]My little girl [05:42.84]Is half again as bright [05:46.35]As girls are meant to be [05:50.76] [05:51.64]Dozens of boys pursue her [05:56.67]Many a likely lad does what he can to woo her [06:06.68]From her faithful dad [06:12.23]She has a few [06:14.97]Pink and white young fellers of two or three [06:21.79] [06:22.31]But my little girl [06:25.07]Gets hungry every night and she comes home to me [06:37.27] [06:42.34]I got to get ready before she comes [06:45.93]I got to make certain that she [06:49.23]Won't be dragged up in slums [06:51.37]With a lot o' bums like me [06:56.41]She's got to be sheltered [06:58.25]In a fair hand dressed [06:59.88]In the best that money can buy [07:03.29]I never knew how to get money [07:06.65]But I'll try I'll try I'll try [07:11.97] [07:12.57]I'll go out and make it or steal it [07:17.28]Or take it or die