My Dad

Though in what seems like a different world
My Dad sounds like your dad.
He took me and my brother aside one day,
Which was a big thing.
What was he going to say?

“Drop the odd ‘Sir’ now and then”
Well, I have ignored that.

“Keep in touch with the lads”
By this he meant keep going to the pub
Even after you have married/settled down
- This was something HE didn’t do.

“Look after Number One”
Which was good coming from HIM
- He looked after our Mammy,
Though she sometimes forgot that

He also looked after numbers
Four, Three, Two – and me.
So ‘Thank You’, Dad
For looking after ‘numero uno’