when peter francisco was just a little bay
the people came from miles around
to see what god had made
he walked the day that he was born
he galloped and he ran
he helped his mother out of bed
and cooled her with his fan
he said i'm gonna try to be a man
he said i'm gonna try to be a man
when peter francisco according he did go
a panther and a bear came out the fighting in the snow
he grabbed the bear in his left hand
the panther in his right
he cracked their heads together
till they didn't care to fight
he said i'm gonna try to be a man
he said i'm gonna try to be a man
when peter francisco saw red coats at his door
he rushed out of his cabin
and he laid them on the floor
there must have been a hundred
but he licked them every one
and those that didn't die with
running back the tarlatan
he said i'm gonna try to be a man
he said i'm gonna try to be a man
he found him a sweet little wife
she waits six hundred pounds
he carried her across the smoke to his honey brown
she had ten sets of triplets and it made old peter glad
when everyone turned out to be exactly like his dad
and said i'm gonna try to be a man
said i'm gonna try to be a man
peter francisco was a man
