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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 was written by Rutherford and Robertson after both...
- Mother's Day Songs
- 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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May 29, 2023 · These songs often focus on the special bond between fathers and their daughters. This collection of 100 heartfelt songs about dads will take you on a journey across various genres, including country, rock, pop, R&B, and folk.
Jun 10, 2024 · Put together a playlist with these Father's Day songs as a sweet gift to Dad. They include classic rock hits and top pop songs so 2024 is the best one yet.
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Jun 15, 2024 · Whether it's a song for a father-daughter dance, a silly song to make your pops laugh over dinner, a wistful reminiscence of a dad who's passed on or an angry ode to an absentee parent, we...
Jun 16, 2020 · 15 must-hear songs about fathers and fatherhood. Celebrate Father's Day with tracks inspired by the miracle of life. Explore our Gig Guide. Some of the world’s most powerful songs have emerged from life-changing moments.
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Jun 2, 2021 · From Luther Vandross's "Dance With My Father" to Beyoncé's "Daddy Lessons," here are the best father's day songs of all time to play for dad.
