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Jun 13, 2024 · Over the years, there have been a host of songs written about relationships between fathers and their kids. Mother's Day: 10 of the greatest and emotional songs about mums. For Father's Day, we've picked out the very best songs about dads - either written by or for fathers, in no particular order.
- Mother's Day Songs
Taken from country singer Kacey Musgraves' massively...
- The Story of 'The Living Years
The song is written from the perspective of a son who has a...
- Mother's Day Songs
- My Wish – Rascal Flatts.
- My Father’s Eyes – Eric Clapton.
- The Best Day – George Strait.
- Unforgettable – Nat King Cole And Natalie Cole.
- Eric Clapton – My Father’s Eyes
- Brandi Carlile – Carried Me with You
- Reba McEntire – The Greatest Man I Never Knew
- John Mayer – Daughters
- The Game – Like Father, Like Son
- Beyoncé Featuring Dixie Chicks – Daddy Lessons
- Miley & Billy Ray Cyrus – I Learned from You
- Bill Withers – I’m Her Daddy
- Will Smith – Just The Two of Us
- Brad Paisley – He Didn’T Have to Be
No one has gracefully mined personal tragedy quite like Eric Clapton. In this song, about the father he never met, Clapton attempts to understand the loss of his own son through the feelings of loss he experienced upon learning of his father’s death in 1985. It’s a song that can put even the most estranged father-child relationships in perspective.
Onwardis the epitome of father-son Disney movies and its theme song fittingly makes listeners choke back tears. The lyrics speak about not taking your family’s love for granted and accepting love even when you feel that you don’t deserve it.
File this alongside Harry Chapin’s “Cats in the Cradle” as one of the saddest father-child songs about unfinished business. In this case, there’s a missing connection between father and daughter (or son, since writer Richard Leigh has said he was writing about his own dad). The father lives behind a wall that never breaks down. After his death, the...
John Mayer didn’t have a daughter when he wrote this song, and some might quibble with the sentiments of its opening verse: If his girlfriend’s father had taken better care of her, maybe she’d be treating Mayer better. But the song’s basic message is hard to argue with: Be good to your kids and they’ll have better lives. It proved universal enough ...
The Game’s impending fatherhood was a crucial part of the narrative for his first album, The Documentary. Coming in at the disc’s end, the birth scene is a glimpse of salvation, as he arrives at the hospital fresh from a shoot-out and makes the wish that “you’ll turn out better than me.” Ten years later he recorded a sequel track; now he had a seco...
One of the least sentimental songs on this list, this Lemonadetrack allows Beyoncé to play the Western hero, and to throw some more musical elements into an already diverse album, including the New Orleans horns in the intro. Daddy raises the singer to be a tough gunslinger when the bad guys come around, but this probably shouldn’t be taken as a pr...
Miley recorded this song back in her Hannah Montanadays, so there’s nothing but positivity in this arena-ready song about the strength you take from a supportive parent. Bringing in Billy Ray gives the song some extra meaning, as their father-daughter exchanges point out that fathers take strength from their kids as well.
Bill Withers’ debut album spawned the classic “Ain’t No Sunshine,” and there was definitely no sunshine in this deep cut either. Over an ominous funk backdrop (with taut Stephen Stills guitar), the singer tracks down Lucy, an ex he hasn’t seen in six years, and wonders if Lucy’s daughter even knows that the singer is her dad. There’s no resolution ...
Bill Withers actually wrote a much more upbeat fatherhood song, though he didn’t know it at the time. It took rapper, entertainer, and all-around nice guy Will Smith to turn Withers’ love ballad into a salute to the joys of fatherhood. In just four verses, Smith makes a pretty good case for himself as a world-class dad, with a steady hand for disci...
There’s a very short list of songs in praise of stepfathers. In fact, we can only think of two: The Winstons’ 60s soul hit “Color Him Father” and Brad Paisley’s second country hit from 1999. This one begins with a flashback, in which the new dad gets a thumbs-up for not running away when he learns his dinner date is a single mom. The payoff comes a...
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- Song for Dad, Keith Urban. “And I only hope when I have my own family that every day I see a little more of my father in me.” First off is this 2002 song from Keith Urban’s Golden Road album.
- He Didn’t Have to Be, Brad Paisley. “And now, all of a sudden, oh it seems so strange to me. How we've gone from something's missing to a family. Looking through the glass, I think about the man that's standing next to me.
- Fade In/Fade Out, Nothing More. “Never settle. Make your mark. Hold your head up. Follow your heart.” In this song, a father dispenses some life advice to his son.
- I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing, Aerosmith. “And I don’t wanna miss a thing.” Some fathers are sentimental about witnessing their children grow up. This sentimentality is evident in Aerosmith’s song that is part of the soundtrack for the movie Armageddon.
May 29, 2023 · Some popular songs about dads include “My Father’s Eyes” by Eric Clapton, “Dance With My Father” by Luther Vandross, “The Living Years” by Mike + The Mechanics, “Butterfly Kisses” by Bob Carlisle, and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” by The Temptations.
These comebacks were epic! For this list, we'll be looking at musical revivals from artists who had hit a dry spell, either due to commercial failure, personal struggles, or a self-imposed hiatus.
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