Categories: Parenting

Ten Great Songs for Father’s Day

It’s the nature of life. We’re meant to lose our dads, rather than the other way around. That makes any Father’s Day the right time to thank Dad for all he did.

If you don’t know how to say it, GreenBookofSongs.com® has found ten songs that will say it for you. They’re about time spent together and good advice, about learning to be a good person from the example he set. They’re the ten greatest ways to tell him you care.

10. Best Day, The George Strait

A fishing trip, teaching us how to drive – it’s how dads love us. If you remember doing things with your dad, this is your song: “Been dreaming day and night about the fun we’ll have / Just me and you doin’ what I’ve always wanted to.

9. Best Day, The Taylor Swift

Same Country genre as George Strait’s song, even the same title – but Swift brings a daughter’s perspective to growing up with Dad. “I didn’t know if you knew, so I’m takin’ this chance to say / That I had the best day with you today.”

8. Walkin’ In My Father’s Shoes Craig Morgan

The best tribute to Dad is wanting to be like him – and acknowledging that’s no easy task: “I’m walkin’ in my father’s shoes / He’s never let me down, that’s a lot to live up to.”

7. Roots Of My Raising Merle Haggard

Dads teach by the example of their kindness and good character. This song is as simple and powerful as the man it describes: “A quiet man whose gentle voice was seldom heard / Who could borrow money at the bank simply on his word.”

6. Let Me Be The Man My Daddy Was Chi-Lites

Thank your dad for his hard work, for his sacrifices, and for teaching you how to be a good man: “Please let me raise my children right / And be the man my daddy was.

5. Leader Of The Band Dan Fogelberg

Each dad gives his child something of himself. This one shared himself through music, and Fogelberg repays him with a song: “My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man / I’m just a living legacy to the leader of the band.”

4. Forty Again John Berry

What would you give to enjoy those hours together all over again? Berry wishes he could go back in time: “He would be young, and I would be ten / We would go fishing, throw an old ball around…Just for today, I wish he was forty again.”

3. Daddy’s Little Girl Karla Bonoff

Tell Dad you cherish each moment together, and that his presence will be with you always: “When I look in the face of the child, I see you in her eyes / And we’re all so much the same / We’ll carry on your name.

2. Dance With My Father Luther Vandross

The sharing, the time spent together – it’s about knowing you were loved. Let your dad know you love him too. Play this song, and dance. If I could get another chance, another walk, another dance with him / I’d play a song that would never, ever end.

1. The Living Years Mike + The Mechanics

Maybe you and your dad fought, but that doesn’t mean you don’t love each other. Whatever your relationship has been, though, don’t let this Father’s Day go by: “Say it loud, say it clear…I just wish I could have told him in the living years.”