Carousel movie - Soliloquy lyrics
rate me<br>
Billy<br>
I wonder what he'll think of me<br>
I guess he'll call me the "old man"<br>
I guess he'll think I can lick<br>
Ev'ry other feller's father<br>
Well, I can!<br>
I bet that he'll turn out to be<br>
The spittin' image of his dad<br>
But he'll have more common sense<br>
Than his puddin-headed father ever had<br>
I'll teach him to wrestle<br>
And dive through a wave<br>
When we go in the mornin's for our swim<br>
His mother can teach him<br>
The way to behave<br>
But she won't make a sissy out o' him<br>
Not him! Not my boy! Not Bill!<br>
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Bill... My boy Bill <br>
I will see that he is named after me, I will.<br>
My boy, Bill! He'll be tall<br>
And tough as a tree, will Bill!<br>
Like a tree he'll grow<br>
With his head held high<br>
And his feet planted firm on the ground<br>
And you won't see nobody dare to try<br>
To boss or toss him around!<br>
No pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully <br>
Will boss him around.<br>
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I don't give a hang what he does<br>
As long as he does what he likes!<br>
He can sit on his tail<br>
Or work on a rail<br>
With a hammer, hammering spikes!<br>
He can ferry a boat on a river<br>
Or peddle a pack on his back<br>
Or work up and down<br>
The streets of a town<br>
With a whip and a horse and a hack.<br>
<br>
He can haul a scow along a canal<br>
Run a cow around a corral<br>
Or maybe bark for a carousel<br>
Of course it takes talent to do that well.<br>
<br>
Aha-ha-ha-ha!<br>
He might be a champ of the heavyweights,<br>
Or a feller that sells you glue,<br>
Or President of the United States,<br>
That'd be all right, too<br>
His mother would like that<br>
But he wouldn't be President if he didn't wanna be!<br>
Not Bill!<br>
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My boy, Bill! He'll be tall<br>
And as tough as a tree, will Bill<br>
Like a tree he'll grow<br>
With his head held high<br>
And his feet planted firm on the ground<br>
And you won't see nobody dare to try<br>
To boss him or toss him around!<br>
No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced, <br>
Pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully<br>
Will boss him around.<br>
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And I'm hanged if he'll marry his boss' daughter<br>
A skinny-lipped virgin with blood like water<br>
Who'll give him a peck<br>
And call it a kiss<br>
And look in his eyes through a lorgnette...<br>
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Hey, why am I talkin' on like this?<br>
My kid ain't even been born, yet!<br>
I can see him when he's seventeen or so,<br>
And startin' to go with a girl<br>
I can give him lots of pointers, very sound<br>
On the way to get 'round any girl<br>
I can tell him ...<br>
Wait a minute!<br>
Could it be?<br>
What the hell!<br>
What if he is a girl?<br>
What would I do with her?<br>
What could I do for her?<br>
A bum with no money!<br>
You can have fun with a son<br>
But you gotta be a father to a girl<br>
She mightn't be so bad at that<br>
A kid with ribbons in her hair!<br>
A kind o' sweett and petite<br>
Little tin-type of her mother!<br>
What a pair!<br>
<br>
My little girl<br>
Pink and white<br>
As peaches and cream is she<br>
My little girl<br>
Is half again as bright<br>
As girls are meant to be!<br>
Dozens of boys pursue her<br>
Many a likely lad does what he can to woo her<br>
From her faithful dad<br>
She has a few<br>
Pink and white young fellers of two or three<br>
But my little girl<br>
Gets hungry ev'ry night and she comes home to me!<br>
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I-I got to get ready before she comes!<br>
I got to make certain that she<br>
Won't be dragged up in slums<br>
With a lot o' bums like me<br>
She's got to be sheltered<br>
In a fair hand dressed <br>
In the best that money can buy!<br>
I never knew how to get money,<br>
But, I'll try, I'll try! I'll try!<br>
I'll go out and make it or steal it<br>
Or take it or die!<br>
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