John Raitt - Soliloquy (1952)

I wonder what he'll think of me I guess he'll call me the old man I guess he'll think I can lick every other fellas father I bet that you turn out to be the spittin image of his dad but he'll have more common sense than his pudding-headed father I'll teach him to wrassle and I threw away when we go in the mornings for our swim his mother can teach him a way to behave but she won't make us see him [Music] I don't give a 9 what he does as long as he does what he likes you can sit in a jail off working on rail with a hammer a prince get Barry a boat on the river won't carry a pack on his back or work up and down the street of a town with a whip and a horse and a hat he can haul the scowl of course it takes talent to do he might be the champ of the heavyweights or a fella that sells you glue or president of United States that'd be all right - there's money would like that wouldn't be press he wanted to be and I'm darned if you marry his boss's daughter a skinny lip woman with blood like water give him a pen and call it up kiss and look in his eyes why am i taking on like this my kid even been born [Laughter] [Music] I can tell you would it be what if he is a person bill [Music] what would I do with it what could I do for her bum with no money you can't have fun with a son but you gotta be a father [Music] she might be some badass kid with ribbons in her hair the kind of need and fatigue little tin type of her mother when I have a daughter I stand around in barrooms oh how our post and law friends are see me common that empty are the barroom through every door they'll go weary of hearing day after day the same old things that are [Music] why doesn't she [Music] as are meant to be and some boys pursue Daniel I rely [Music] faithful [Music] I gotta get ready before she comes I gonna make certain that she won't be dragged up in slums with a she's gonna be shelter and bed and rest in the best that money [Music] Oh [Music] Oh [Music] you

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Length: 7min 52sec (472 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 23 2008