Favorite songs about Dad

[mathman]

Our Father -- Extreme

Where's Dad Rob Fetter's Lefty- loose Righty Tight

Used to Be Psychodots

[Willie G. Moseley]

"Bow Tie Daddy"-Mothers of Invention

"Papa Was A Rolling Stone"-Temptations

"My Dad"-Paul Peterson

[cmatthes]

"Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School"? (CT)

Kiz' favorite is "Oh Daddy", by Adrian Belew. I just know it.

Oh Daddy

[Guest pirateflynn]

"Father and Son" - Cat Stevens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TzJfsBB3mQ

[MCChris]

"Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School"? (CT)

Kiz' favorite is "Oh Daddy", by Adrian Belew. I just know it.

Oh Daddy

He's a big Rob Fetters fan too.

Gotta mention "Papa Was a Rolling Stone."

[Bruiser Brody]

"If That Ain't Country, I'll Kiss Yer Ass" - D.A.C.

[Guest pirateflynn]

"The Man I Used To Be" - Jellyfish

[Mindseyes]

This will fall under bad dad:

Daddy by KoRn

[tomteriffic]

"My Old Man" - Steve Goodman

[princeofdarkness56]

Cat's in the Cradle.

[atquinn]

Almost every song on Sting's Soul Cages album, which is all about fathers and sons. Especially, Why Should I Cry for You.

-Austin

[Steve Haynie]

A seasonal song, but the sentiment remains year round...

Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)

The first time I heard this song it was sung by John Denver.

[alantigold]

Free Swinging Soul - Michael Hedges

Still Can't Say Goodbye - Chet Atkins

Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash

Alan

[El Kabong]

When I was a senior in high school, I was a huge fan of a local group when I lived near Vancouver, called 'The Grapes of Wrath'. They had some regional success with a song called, 'Piece of Mind'.

One of the strongest lines in this Byrds and Simon and Garfunkel influenced song went:

My father couldn't bother,

To do the kind of work the job required,

So instead of trying he retired,

....

I would hope that when we get older we may find

A piece of mind.

One day, I was helping a friend move into a funky, broken down tennament and a guy in his late 50's said, 'Oh, you're wearing my son's shirt'. I asked if his son had the same G.o.W. t-shirt. He replied, 'No, my son's Kevin Kane',(singer/ song writer). The lyrics all came together in an instant, when I could never make any sense out of Duran Duran...

[mudshark]

Not a song, but I've loved this poem by Theodor Roethke for a long long time:

My Papa's Waltz

The whiskey on your breath

Could make a small boy dizzy;

But I hung on like death:

Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans

Slid from the kitchen shelf;

My mother's countenance

Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist

Was battered on one knuckle;

At every step you missed

My right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head

With a palm caked hard by dirt,

Then waltzed me off to bed

Still clinging to your shirt.

[Brooks]

Born into a scene of averice and greed, dominance and persecution.

My mother was a queen, my dad I've never seen, I was never meant to be.

And now I spend my time looking all around,

For a man that's nowhere to be found.

Until I find him I'm never gonna stop searching,

I'm gonna find my old man, gonna travel around.

'Cause I'm a wrathchild

Say it doesn't matter ain't nothin' gonna alter the course of my destination.

I know I've got to find some serious piece of mind, or I know I'll go crazy.

But now I spend my time looking all around,

For a man thats nowhere to be found.

Until I find him I'm never gonna stop searching,

I'm gonna find my old man, gonna travel around.

[jwhitcomb3]

Father's Day - Big Dipper (from the album Slam)

-Jonathan

[Stike]

"Boy Named Sue"-Cash

[stobro]

Papa Don't Take No Mess- James Brown

Papa don`t take no mess

Papa don`t take no mess

Papa is the man who can understand

How a man has to do whatever he can

Now Papa might grin, drink a little taste of gin

Bet his last ten on a little game of skins

Papa digs the chick if she look real slick

Papa rap is very quick, he defintely ain`t no trick

Papa didn`t cuss, he didn`t raise a whole lotta fuss

But when we did wrong Papa beat the hell out of us

I saw Papa cry when he thought that I would die

He says something was in his eye

I knew it was a lie

Papa loves his son

Mama said Papa`s smart, Papa got a whole lotta heart

And Papa would do his part when the game get hard

Papa don`t take no mess