55 Finest Songs About Dads and the Joys of Fatherhood

“And now, unexpectedly, oh it appears so unusual to me. How we have gone from one thing’s lacking to a household. Trying via the glass, I take into consideration the person that is standing subsequent to me. And I hope I am at the least half the dad that he did not need to be.”

First launched in 1999, this tune was impressed by the real-life expertise of certainly one of its co-writers.

It’s narrated from the angle of a single mom’s son. The son skilled having a father determine within the man his mom was courting.

This man finally turns into the boy’s stepfather. This tune expresses the son’s gratitude and admiration for the person who stepped up and have become his father when “he didn’t need to be.”

“By no means settle. Make your mark. Maintain your head up. Observe your coronary heart.”

On this tune, a father dispenses some life recommendation to his son. The tune can also be about recognizing that succeeding generations will carry the legacy of the earlier one ahead.

“And I don’t wanna miss a factor.”

Some fathers are sentimental about witnessing their youngsters develop up. This sentimentality is clear in Aerosmith’s tune that’s a part of the soundtrack for the film Armageddon.

On this tune, a doting father needs to savor each second that he can together with his baby.

“Good morning, son. In 20 years from now possibly we’ll each sit down and have a number of beers. And I can inform you ’bout in the present day and the way I picked you up and every part modified.”

Mother and father typically face difficulties in parenting their youngsters. With teenagers present process so many adjustments and going through points find their identities, they will really feel misunderstood even by mother and father with one of the best intentions.

Ben Folds devoted this tune to his adolescent son. It shares among the realities of rising up.

This tune is a reminder that Ben Folds will at all times be there for his son, and that he seems ahead to the day when the 2 of them can share a drink and reminisce about how life has been.

“They do not make ’em like my daddy anymore.”

This monitor was first launched in 1974. It’s a few baby’s adoration for her distinctive father.

The tune describes the daddy as a strong-willed, hardworking man. He’s dedicated to his household, defending them from the hazards round their house and offering for his or her wants one of the simplest ways he can.

The narrator laments that it’s now uncommon to see a person like this father.

“I feel I am going to coloration this man father. I feel I am going to coloration him love.”

First launched in 1969, this tune made the Billboard Sizzling 100 that 12 months. It’s devoted to stepfathers who handled their stepchildren as their very own.

Within the tune, a widowed lady with seven youngsters doesn’t suppose she’s going to ever love once more. Then she meets a person who willingly takes care of her and her youngsters, loving them as his personal.

The narrator sees that the person loves him and the remainder of the household. This tune is an expression of the stepson’s love for and gratitude to his stepfather.

“That is the story of my outdated man. Identical to his father earlier than him. I am telling you, do something you possibly can so you do not find yourself similar to them. Like them.”

Whereas there are fathers who’re dedicated to their households, there are additionally dads who—for no matter purpose—depart their households and by no means provoke contact when the youngsters are older.

This tune is a mirrored image on an advanced father-son relationship. It additionally explores the legacy left behind by an absent mum or dad.

“Daddy gave me a reputation. (Then he walked away).”

Right here’s one other tune a few father who abandons his household. This tune relies on Everclear’s Artwork Alexakis’ private expertise of being deserted by his father when he was 10.

“Daddy, decelerate some ‘trigger you are makin’ me run. Oh, daddy, do not you stroll so quick.”

This tune is a few husband and father who’s about to depart house for good as a result of he feels that there’s no extra love between him and the mom of his daughter.

Nevertheless, the little woman follows him out the door and chases him, begging him to not stroll quick as a result of she will be able to’t sustain. It’s due to his daughter that he reconciles with the woman’s mom.

“If I may get one other likelihood, one other stroll, one other dance with him. I would play a tune that will by no means ever finish. How I would love, love, love to bop with my father once more, ooh.”

It is a touching tribute to a beloved father from a son who regarded as much as him.

“You possibly can let go now, daddy. You possibly can let go. Oh, I feel I am prepared to do that by myself.”

This tune is a daughter’s recollection of the occasions her father was by her aspect. She remembers how her father has at all times been a continuing presence in her life—from when she was a baby till she was a bride.

She nonetheless has her father by her aspect as he walks her down the aisle.

“Being your daddy comes pure. The roses simply know find out how to develop. It is simple to see that you will get the place you are going, however the exhausting half is letting you go…”

Right here’s a tune from the angle of a father elevating his baby.

For him, it’s pretty straightforward to observe his child develop. Nevertheless, as soon as they’re grown, the daddy has a tough time letting them go to start out life on their very own.

14. My Dad, Davy Jones

“He isn’t a lot within the eyes of the world. He’ll by no means make historical past. No, he isn’t a lot within the eyes of the world. However he’s the world to me.”

When you’re in search of a candy tune concerning the love and admiration of a son for his dad, you may need to hearken to this monitor by Davy Jones.

On this tune, the dad is a reasonably unusual man. Nevertheless, to his son, the daddy is somebody he seems as much as, and who means the world to him.

“Oh, he was good at enterprise, however there was enterprise left to do. He by no means mentioned he liked me. Guess he thought I knew.”

All through the years, there have been fathers who weren’t very near their youngsters.

They might be hardworking males who supplied for his or her household’s wants, however they nonetheless have strained or nonexistent relationships with their youngsters.

“And the cats within the cradle and the silver spoon. Little boy blue and the person on the moon. Whenever you comin’ house? Son, I do not know when. We’ll get collectively then. we’ll have time then.”

This tune is a few father who barely has time for his son whereas the boy is rising up. The whole lot comes full circle when the person retires and his son is now the one who doesn’t have time for him.

“There isn’t any energy on earth like your father’s love.”

This tune was featured on the soundtracks of the 1998 movie Jack Frost, starring Michael Keaton. It’s concerning the energy of a father’s love that transcends even dying.

“Oh, don’t be concerned dad, you realize it do not matter what we do, ‘trigger I do not name him daddy, he can by no means be such as you.”

On this tune, a father who’s separated from his son’s mom tries to attach together with his son. However the baby’s mom already has a brand new boyfriend.

Within the son’s eyes, nevertheless, the brand new man in his mom’s life can’t measure as much as his actual dad.

“My son calls one other man daddy. He’ll ne’er know my identify nor my face. God solely is aware of the way it hurts me. For an additional to be in my place.”

This tune is about an incarcerated man who laments the painful state of affairs he’s in. Whereas he’s in jail, the mom of his son finds another person to like. The boy calls this man daddy.

Due to his jail sentence, it’s seemingly that the daddy gained’t be seeing his son for a very long time. By then, the boy may have forgotten him, contemplating he has a brand new father determine in his life.

20. The Field, Randy Travis

“I suppose we at all times knew it however ‘I really like you’ was exhausting for him to say. Some males present it simply and a few simply by no means appear to seek out the way in which. However that night time I started to see a softer aspect of somebody I had misplaced. I noticed the love he stored inside the primary time once we opened up the field.”

Right here’s a tune a few dad who finds it tough to indicate his emotions, particularly his love and affection for his household.

Nevertheless, his son discovers how a lot his father treasures his family members when the household finds a field stuffed with valuable mementos.

“I am seein’ my father in me, I suppose that is the way it’s meant to be. And I discover I am an increasing number of like him every day.”

On this touching tune, a son acknowledges that he’s turning into an increasing number of like his father as he will get older—in the way in which he seems and the way in which he acts. The son is proud of this realization, proud that he bears his father’s legacy.

“My father’s eyes. I regarded into my father’s eyes.”

This tune was impressed by sorrowful occasions in Eric Clapton’s life. He by no means met his father, who handed away in 1985.

The tune is about attending to know his father and feeling the bond between them when he seems at his personal son’s eyes.

Tragically, Eric Clapton’s personal son handed manner in an accident when the little boy was 4 years outdated.

“Been loopy all day lengthy and it is solely Monday, Mr. Mother.”

This tune is a few stay-at-home dad doing his finest to maintain his youngsters clear, secure, and fed whereas additionally conserving the home so as.

“Nicely, it would as effectively be China or the darkish aspect of the moon. There is no manner I might be there each Friday afternoon.”

On this tune, listeners get to know a father who’s confronted with the problem of seeing his son once more. His ex-wife has custody, and he or she decides to maneuver to Boston, taking their baby along with her.

The daddy isn’t precisely well-off, and laments the gap and different challenges he faces in his effort to nonetheless be a part of his son’s life.

“Yeah we’re simply alike, hey ain’t we, dad? I wanna do every part you do. So, I have been watching you.”

On this tune, listeners are reminded how adults’ actions have a major affect on youngsters’s lives. A son learns a few issues from his father. He seems as much as his father and declares that he needs to be similar to his dad.

“I am only a dwelling legacy to the chief of the band.”

This tune was first launched in 1981 and is a tribute to Dan Fogelberg’s father, Lawrence Fogelberg. The tune focuses on the connection between father and son. It additionally conveys a son’s gratitude for the daddy’s love and help.

Just a few months after the tune was launched, Lawrence Fogelberg handed away.

“And I want I knew again then what I do know now. He was saying “I really like you,” the one manner he knew how.”

As talked about earlier, some fathers will not be demonstrative, struggling to indicate their affection and love for his or her households.

On this tune, a father exhibits his love not via phrases, however via acts of service, reminiscent of fixing his son’s automotive and doing repairs at his son’s new home.

At first, the narrator doesn’t perceive his father’s love language. Ultimately, he will get it and appreciates his father’s manner of claiming, “I really like you.”

“They might not have a lot however he will get what they want, with the palms of a working man.”

This man describes the aspirations and actuality of a hardworking father. He doesn’t make a lot, however he’s keen to do something to make sure his household has every part they should dwell a snug life.

“No matter you might be, I am right here by your aspect. My life is a rope that will not come untied. Oh, I’ll stand by you proper or incorrect. These are the phrases inside my father’s tune.”

Searching for a tune tribute to an exquisite father from a daughter’s perspective? Right here’s one from Barbra Streisand.

First launched in 1975, this tune is a few father who’s loving, devoted, and supportive of his daughter.

“There was at all times love in daddy’s palms.”

First launched in 1986, this tune was a Father’s Day present for Holly Dunn’s father. It’s a few daughter’s satisfaction, love, and devotion for the person who liked her and raised her effectively.

“However bein’ a dad takes greater than a tad of fine luck and divine intervention…”

This hilarious monitor is concerning the challenges a father faces when elevating his youngsters from infants into adolescents.

The dad talks about having to feed, dress, and skim tales to very younger youngsters, in addition to laying down guidelines and curfews.

A few perks of fatherhood, in response to the tune, are receiving good presents on particular days of the 12 months and witnessing the youngsters attain milestones, reminiscent of graduations.

“Thanks for shaping my life. Thanks for instructing me all you possibly can. You might be no unusual man, no no. You make me every part I’m.”

On this tune, a son expresses gratitude to his father. The son acknowledges the steering and classes the daddy gave him as being instrumental in making him the person he’s now.

“My outdated man. I hope he is pleased with who I’m. I am attempting to fill the boots of my outdated man.”

This tune is a tribute to the narrator’s father, from whom he realized loads of life classes. The narrator needs his father to be pleased with how he’s dwelling his life, making use of the teachings he realized from his dad.

34. Papa Was a Rolling Stone, The Temptations

“Papa was a rolling stone (my son). Wherever he laid his hat was his house.”

Whereas we’ve seen loads of examples of songs which can be about fathers who’re good examples to their youngsters, right here’s a tune a few father who wasn’t there for his youngsters.

On this tune, the daddy was a philanderer and wanderer. The son turns into conscious of this after his father dies and he confronts his mom, asking for the reality.

“When he seems in my eyes, I hope he can see that my dad’s a hero to me.”

“Daddy would not pray anymore. I suppose he is lastly strolling with the Lord. He used to fold his palms and bow his head right down to the ground. However daddy would not pray anymore.”

This tune honors a father who was prayerful in life however has now handed away. The son contemplates on his father’s religion and believes he’s now in a greater place.

“You need to be right here, standing together with your arm round me right here. Chopping up, cracking a chilly beer, saying cheers, hey y’all, it is positive been 12 months. It is a kind of moments, that is acquired your identify written throughout it.”

We by no means recover from shedding our mother and father. On this bittersweet tune, a son expresses his love for a father who’s already lengthy gone.

He reminisces concerning the occasions when his father was nonetheless with the household. He recollects the issues his father used to say and do throughout household occasions.

“With you daddy, take me with you daddy. In all places you are going to, I simply wanna be with you. Proper with you daddy. Do not depart me daddy. Do not you realize that is proper the place I belong?”

This tune is a few son who learns his father has a terminal sickness, seemingly brought on by smoking. The son recollects the ultimate moments of his father’s life.

He begs for his father to not depart him. In the long run, nevertheless, the son is ready to settle for his father’s demise.

Nonetheless, he nonetheless needs to be together with his father wherever he has gone.

39. Oh Father, Madonna

“Possibly sometime after I look again, I am going to have the ability to say you did not imply to be merciless. Anyone damage you too.”

Here’s a tune stuffed with bitterness. It is a story of a daughter who’s estranged from her abusive father. She tries to grasp why her father damage her the way in which he did, even questioning if he by no means really liked her.

Nevertheless, she finally escaped his cruelty and now she’s dwelling her life the way in which she needs.

In the long run, the daughter is ready to perceive that her father’s cruelty was the results of him being raised by abusive individuals, too.

40. I Realized From You, Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus

“I realized from you that I don’t crumble. I realized that power is one thing you select. All the causes to maintain on believin’. There is no query, that is a lesson that I realized from you.”

On this tune, a daughter acknowledges she’s realized essential life classes from her father. She is headstrong, however is aware of that she might be sturdy in her choices as a result of her father taught her effectively.

41. He Walked on Water, Randy Travis

“And if the story was instructed, solely heaven is aware of. However his hat appeared to me like an outdated halo. And though his wings, they had been by no means seen. I believed that he walked on water.”

Youngsters typically idolize their mother and father. They’re in awe of the first caregivers of their lives, viewing their mother and father as heroes or saints.

This tune is a few son’s reverence for his father, who was a hardworking and loving man. To the boy, his father seems saint-like and able to miracles.

42. The Finest Day, George Strait

“Dad, this might be one of the best day of my life. I have been dreaming day and night time concerning the enjoyable we have had. Simply me and also you doing what I’ve at all times needed to. I am the luckiest boy alive. That is one of the best day of my life.”

This tune is a father reminiscing about his son’s youthful years. He feels fortunate that his presence in his son’s life resulted within the son telling him that he needs to be like his father.

43. Father’s Day, Wedding ceremony Events Something

“On every other day, I would care what you say. However each Saturday is Father’s Day. And also you may name it unhappy. You may name me mad. However I’ve acquired one who calls me ‘Dad’.”

Right here’s a tune a few father who shares custody of his baby and appears ahead to each Saturday go to. For him, being together with his son on these days makes him really feel prefer it’s Father’s Day.

“Simply ‘trigger I am leavin’, it do not imply that I will not be proper by your aspect once you want me.”

This tune highlights the shut bond between a father and his son.

There are three scenes on this tune. Within the first one, the daddy is about to depart for an abroad project within the navy, and the son begs him to not go.

Within the subsequent scene, the son himself joins the navy. He exhibits vulnerability when he expresses that he’s anxious about being separated from his household.

The ultimate scene is on the father’s deathbed. He assures his son that though he gained’t be there bodily, his love for his son endures.

45. Endlessly Now, Michael Bublé

“However I hope you may at all times perceive that I am at all times gonna carry you up and I am by no means gonna allow you to down. It doesn’t matter what you do, I am perpetually pleased with you. I really like you perpetually now.”

In 2016, Michael Bublé’s son Noah was identified with most cancers. Noah’s sickness gave Michael Bublé a purpose to reassess what was essential to him.

This tune is a tribute to fatherhood and the love {that a} dad feels for his youngsters.

It is usually an invite for listeners to mirror on what’s most essential in life.

As we speak, after present process remedy, Noah is free from most cancers!

“Piece by piece, he restored my religion {that a} man might be sort and the daddy ought to be nice.”

It is a very private tune for Kelly Clarkson. It’s concerning the ache she bears due to her father’s abandonment.

As a mom, she has put her religion within the father of her daughter, believing that he gained’t abandon them as her father did.

“And if angels haven’t got solutions to your prayers, oh, I shall be there. Oh, I shall be there.”

This tune is devoted to John Legend’s daughter, Luna. It’s a father’s promise to at all times stand by his daughter, doing one of the best he can to make her pleased.

48. Construct Me a Daddy, Luke Bryan

“Might you construct me a daddy? Sturdy as Superman. Make him ten toes tall with a Southern drawl and a crooked smile, for those who can. ‘Trigger I positive miss him. Possibly you can deliver him again? If I walked in with him, it’d positive make mama pleased. When you may construct me a daddy.”

On this tune, a boy who has misplaced his father asks somebody to vogue him a brand new daddy with superhuman qualities.

If somebody supplied to make an motion determine of your dad primarily based in your specs, how would you describe your father?

49. Winter, Tori Amos

“I get somewhat heat in my coronary heart after I consider winter. I put my hand in my father’s glove.”

Youngsters who develop up with dads who’re engaged and concerned of their lives typically exhibit a excessive stage of self-confidence.

On this tune, a daughter reminisces concerning the occasions when her father supported and guarded her. Her dad’s gloves symbolize the sensation of safety and luxury his presence gave her.

50. My Previous Man, Mac Demarco

“Uh-oh, seems like I am seeing extra of my outdated man in me.”

Right here’s somewhat background on Mac Demarco. His father, who suffered from substance abuse, deserted Mac when he was 5 years outdated. They’d a handful of conferences through the years as Mac was rising up.

On this tune, Mac is horrified to understand that, because the years go, he’s beginning to resemble his father.

“I believed I noticed you yesterday. However I do know it wasn’t you ‘trigger you handed away, Dad.”

On this tune, a son displays on his relationship together with his father after he thinks he’s caught a glimpse of his dad. Sadly, it was simply wishful pondering.

In the direction of the top of the tune, it’s revealed that the son misses his father, who has handed away.

“Issues dads do. You will suppose it is loopy till you are one too.”

Right here is one other tune about how youngsters comply with a lot within the footsteps of their mother and father. On this tune, a son reminisces concerning the issues his father did for the household.

The son realizes that, now that he’s a dad himself, he’s began doing among the supportive issues that his father used to do for them.

53. Daddy, Coldplay

“Daddy, are you okay? Look, Dad, we acquired the identical hair. And, Daddy, it is my birthday.”

This heartbreaking tune is an attraction to absent fathers.

In it, a son calls out to his father who deserted him and begs him to return house.

He notes that he and his father have bodily similarities. He continues to plead for his father to return to allow them to spend even simply someday collectively.

54. My Father’s Daughter, Jewel ft. Dolly Parton

“I’m my father’s daughter. I’ve his eyes. I’m the product of his sacrifice. I’m the buildup of the goals of generations. And their tales dwell in me like holy water. I’m my father’s daughter.”

On this tune, a daughter expresses her satisfaction at inheriting the tales and legacy of her father.

How about you? What trait or legacy was handed down out of your father to you?

55. Hey Dad, Matt Stillwell

“Hey, dad. It is me, dad. Simply needed to inform you that I miss you dangerous.”

This tune is a few son who misses his father after he has handed away. In an imaginary telephone name, the son has a dialog together with his dad the place he hears him inform him how a lot he’s liked.

There you might have it—a set of songs about dads, describing the highs and lows of being a father.

We hope you’ve discovered a favourite or two so as to add to your playlist.

Fatherhood is a fancy expertise. Whereas many really feel exhilarated at being dads, there are additionally those that—for no matter purpose—are unable to step up and be fathers to their youngsters.