By: Ken Streater | Parenting | Top Ten Lists
Sing, smile, cry, reflect, dance, hug your dad, miss your dad, hug your kids. In no particular order, here is our list of the best songs about fathers and fatherhood.
Okay, so we could not agree on the top ten so there are actually 13 songs.
1) My Father’s Eyes, Eric Clapton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocDpFVhyDw
2) There Goes My Life, Kenny Chesney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lunZqFUl3E (Note: This live version includes a performance with the songwriter, Wendell Mobley, who had and lost a daughter when he was a teenager.)
3) Father and Son, Cat Stevens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-DsYmxznWA
4) The Living Years, Mike and the Mechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1LIJewNfvU
5) Daddy’s Hands, Holly Dunn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q_E6pUwySg
6) The Things We’ve Handed Down, Marc Cohn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9KvlZWQzRA
7) Highway 20 Ride, Zac Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZMCkufE0X0
8) Coal Miner’s Daughter, Loretta Lynn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tnQxTFkgSs
9) Daughters, John Mayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZLbUIa7exE
10) Daddy, Beyonce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UIUcPyLT8k
11) Dance With My Father, Luther Vandross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDxJrggie8
12) I’ve Got a Name, Jim Croce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmkXlP1VxFQ
13) My Father’s House, Bruce Springsteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYDW1bIwIV4 (Note: The first minute of this is a black screen but it then shows Bruce live. The video is shaky but the sound of him singing this live is too powerful to not have this version as our choice.)