My father used to say   You sleep with dogs, the next day   You'll wake in the night scratching   Those inevitable fleas      At ten years old   You listen to what you're told   But I never have the itch   I never would      Mother had forbidden me   To waste away my life   I want you to have all the things   I could never buy you      Don't stop what I'd begun   You're my one my only son   Follow what I say not what I've done   Follow what I say not what I've done      Shower, scrub, and shave   Cleanly boys don't misbehave   Follow what I say, not what I've done