Little Bosephus

Little Bosephus, you're the one, makes me feel good inside

Just to know that you're my son makes my heart swell with pride

I've always needed one like you to love and understand

Now that you've come to fill that place, you're my buddy, man to man

There comes a time when every boy grows so cocksure with

life

So that he feels he knows it all and no longer needs advice

The complicated phase of life is called "adolescent age?

And sometimes breaks a father's heart---wish you could skip that stage

I'd like to help you fill your heart with kindness, faith and truth

Protect you from the hands that reach out to destroy manhood and you

There is so much sorrow and despair to blight the hearts of men

And the more we learn of love and life, the more they come crowding in

It's just little things at first, my son, then, as we grow older

Our troubles grow much bigger too and sometimes, they overflow

The poisoned minds and broken hearts will cause strongest men to weep

Overwhelm souls with bitterness and death would be so sweet

So we must build a strong defense of love and fortitude

On character and knowledge, son, so these ills cannot intrude

Ah, Sonny boy, so many things a youngster needs to know

If he is to find true happiness as down through this life he goes

It's just a father's love, I guess, that comes to every Dad

That makes me want to shelter you from things that make you sad

Bosephis, boy, I'm standing by to help you when you call

For Son, you are my flesh and blood and the grandest pal of all