What's Your Favorite "Father's Day" Song?

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 4:52pm

I'm rather partial to Maury Yeston's "New Words"

Look up there, high above us
In a sky of blackest silk;
See how round, like a cookie
See how white, as white as milk;
Call it the moon, my son, say moon
Sounds like your spoon, my son, can you say it;
New word today, say moon.

Near the moon, brightly turning
See the shining sparks of light;
Each one new, each one burning
Through the darkness of the night;
We call them stars, my son, say stars
That one is Mars, my son, can you say it;
New word today, say stars.

As they blink all around us



As they blink all around us
Playing starry eyed games;
Who would think it astounds us
Simply naming their names.

Turn your eyes from the skies now
Turn around and look at me;
There's a light in my eyes now
And a word for what you see;
We call it love, my son, say love
So hard to say, my son, it gets harder.

New words today, we'll learn to say
Learn moon, learn stars, learn love.


Playing starry eyed games;
Who would think it astounds us
Simply naming their names.

Turn your eyes from the skies now
Turn around and look at me;
There's a light in my eyes now
And a word for what you see;
We call it love, my son, say love
So hard to say, my son, it gets harder.

New words today, we'll learn to say
Learn moon, learn stars, learn love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGFA7bS6Ugk

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 7:36pm

"Fathers & Sons" by Stephen Schwartz, from the musical "Working"


I heard a lotta songs say "where you goin' my son?"
Now I know they're true
Boy, you never stop to think how fast the years run
Now they've taken you
I remember you was three 'n' a half
Your ma and me, we'd sit there after things got quieted
We'd laugh at some new word you said
How tough you were to get to bed
And we'd plan the night away
Planning for our kid ...

I was your hero then
I couldn't do no wrong, as far as you were concerned
You thought I was the best of men
The tables hadn't turned
You hadn't learned
How little time it takes
And daddies make mistakes ...

Seems to me that lately I been thinkin' a lot
I think about my dad
Lots of funny things come back I thought I'd forgot
Now they make me sad
High school and it used to be
I didn't want him touchin' me, and I shuddered if he did
Further back to summer nights
Baseball games beneath the lights
And sleepin' in the car
My daddy and his kid ...

He was my hero then
He couldn't do no wrong, as far as I was concerned
I thought he was the wisest and the strongest
And the best of men
The tables hadn't turned
I hadn't learned
How little time it takes
And everybody breaks
And daddies make mistakes ......

I heard a lotta songs say: "where you goin', my son?"
Now I know they're for real
Boy, you never stop to think how fast the years run
And the things they steal
Now it seems I always knew
Why I do the things I do
And the things I never did
Why I work my whole damn life
So's I could give a better life
Than the one my dad could give me
I give it
To my kid ...

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/18/11 at 1:11am

Eddie Fisher, "Oh, My Papa":

http://youtu.be/y04seHfYLAA