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Soliloquy chords by 
Gordon Macrae 
N/A•
Verse 1
D
Bm
D
I wonder what he'll think of me.
E
D
I guess he'll call me the old man.
A
I guess he'll think I can lick every
D
other fella's father.
Am
D
Bbaug
Well, I can.
F#
D
G
I bet that he'll turn out to be the
D
spittin' of his dad,
but he'll have more common sense
A
than his puddin' -headed
D
A
D
father ever had.
G
I'll teach him to wrestle and
dive through a wave
E
when we go in the mornings for our swim.
A
His mother can teach him the way to behave,
but she won't make
G
Baug
a sissy out of him.
G
Not him.
E
Am
Not my boy.
A
D
Bb
D
G
Not Bill. Bill. My boy Bill,
Am
A
D
G
D
G
I will see that he's named af ter me. I will. My boy Bill,
D
G
he'll be tall and as tough as a tree.
A
G
Well, Bill, like a tree he'll grow
with his head held high
E
an d his feet planted firm on the ground.
G
D
And you won't see nobody dare
G
D
to try to boss him
or toss him around.
F
G
A
D
No pot -bellied, baggy -eyed bully
G
will boss him around.
I don't give a hang what he does,
as long as he does what he likes.
He can sit on his tail
or work on a rail
with a hammer, a hammer
Bb
and spikes.
He can ferry a boat on a river
or pedal a pack on his back.
D
Or work up and down
G
the streets of a town
D
G
with a whip and a horse and a hack.
Bb
A
He can haul a scowl along a canal,
Bb
A
run a cow around a corral,
F#m
F
A
or maybe bark for a carousel.
D
Of course,
F#m
D
it takes talent to do that well.
G
He might be a champ of the heavyweights,
or a fellow that sells you glue,
E
A
or president of the United States.
Am
A
G
that it'd be all right too.
D
His mother would like that,
but he wouldn't be president
G
unless he wanted to be.
D
G
Not Bill. My boy Bill,
Am
D
G
he'll be tall and as tough as a tree.
A
G
Well, Bill, like a tree he'll grow
with his head held high
E
an d his feet planted firm on the ground.
F
D
And you won't see nobody
dare to try to boss him
or toss him around.
C
Am
No fat -bottomed, flabby -faced, pot -bellied, draggy
D
Am
A
-eyed bully will boss him around.
Am
And I'm hanged if he'll
marry his boss's daughter,
a skinny -lipped lady with blood like water,
A
Bb
Who'd give him a peck and call it a kiss,
D
G
And look in his eyes through a lorgnette?
E
A
F
Bb
Say, why am I taking on like this?
Am
F
A
Bb
My kid ain't even been born yet.
F
I can see him when
Dm
F
he's seventeen or so,
Dm
F
And starting in to go with a girl.
Dm
F
Dm
I can give him lots of pointers
F
Dm
F
Eb
very sound on the way to get
Abm
Eb
D#m
B
F#
around any girl
D#m
D#
F
I can tell him wait a minute
G
could it be what the what
Gm
G
A#
D#
Bb
A
if he is a girl
E
D
Dm
A
E
Dm
Oh, Bill. Bill.
A
E
What would I do with her?
Dm
F
E
Dm
What could I do for her?
E
D
F
A bum with no money.
E
F
G
You can have fun with a son
Dm
G
E
G
But you gotta be a father to a girl
E
D
She mightn't be so bad at that,
F
Dm
her kid with ribbons in her hair.
G
What kind of sweet and petite
Dm
little tintype of her mother
G
C
F
would offend my little girl?
Gm
Pink and white as peaches
Bb
C
Am
and cream is she.
F
Bb
My little girl is half again
F
Dm
G
Gm
Bb
F
as bright as girls are meant to be.
C
F
Bb
C
Dozens of boys pursue her,
F
many a likely lead.
E
A
D
E
Does what he can to woo her,
A
D
G
from her faithful dad.
C
F
A
Dm
She has a few pink and white
F
Gm
Bb
C
young fellers of two or three.
Am
F
Am
C
Dm
But my little girl get
Bb
F
s hungry every night,
Dm
F
F
E
Eb
and she comes home to me.
Ebm
Eb
I gotta get ready before she comes.
Dm
Bb
I gotta make certain that she
F#
Bb
Won't be dragged up in slums
F#
F
With a lot of bums like me
Bb
She's gotta be sheltered
and fed and dressed
In the best that money can buy
Eb
Bb
I never knew how to get money
F
Dm
But I'll try, I'll try
Bb
F
Bb
Eb
I'll try, I'll go out and make it,
Bb
Eb
Bdim
F
Bb
or steal it, or take it, or die!
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B
D#
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A#
Ebm
Bdim
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