The 'old man'

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

Ev’ry other feller’s father

Well, I can!

I bet that he’ll turn out to be

The spittin’ image of his dad

But he’ll have more common sense

Than his puddin-headed father ever had

I’ll teach him to wrassle

And dive through a wave

When we go in the mornin for our swim

His mother can teach him

The way to behave

But she won’t make a sissy out o’ him

—from Soliloquy by Rodgers & Hammerstein

Jeffrey Brown imagines a kinder, gentler Darth Vadar in his new book.