#1. When I was young my father said, 'Son, I have something to say.' And what he told me I'll never forget until my dying day. he said... 'Son, you are a bachelor boy, and that's the way to stay. Son, you'll be a bachelor boy until your dying day.' #2. When I was sixteen I fell in love with a girl as sweet as can be. But I remembered just in time, what daddy said to me. He said... CHORUS: #3. As time goes by I probably will meet a girl and fall in love. Then I'll get married, have a wife and a child, and they'll be my turtle doves. But until then... I'll be a bachelor boy, that's the way I'll stay, happy to be a bachelor boy, until my dying day, Yeah... I'll be a bachelor boy, that's the way I'll stay. Happy to be a bachelor boy, until my dying da...y. A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.