Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Dolly Parton
Canonical path: /dolly-parton/to-daddy
Related lyric paths: 6
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To Daddy
Read To Daddy lyrics by Dolly Parton on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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To Daddy
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Momma Never Seemed to Miss the Finer Things in Life
If She Did, She Never Did Say So to Daddy
She Never Wanted to Be More Than Mother and a Wife
If She Did, She Never Did Say So to Daddy
The Only Things That Seemed to Be Important in Her Life
Was to Make Our House a Home and Make Us Happy
Momma Never Wanted Anymore Than What She Had
If She Did, She Never Did Say So to Daddy
He Often Left Her All Alone
She Didn't Mind the Stayin' Home
If She Did, She Never Did Say So to Daddy
And She Never Missed the Flowers
And the Gifts He Never Gave Her
If She Did, She Never Did Say So to Daddy
Being Took For Granted Was a Thing That She Accepted
And She Didn't Need Those Things to Make Her Happy
She Didn't Even Seem to Notice
That He Didn't Kiss and Hold Her
If She Did, She Never Did Say So to Daddy
Chorus:
One Morning We Awoke
Just to Find the Note
That Momma Carefully Wrote
And Left to Daddy
And As He Began to Read It
Our Ears Could Not Believe It
The Words That She Had Written There to Daddy
She Said Our Kids Are Old Enough
And They Don't Need Me Very Much
So I've Gone in Search For Love I Need So Badly
I Have Needed You So Long
But I Just Can't Keep Holdin' On
She Never Meant to Come Back Home
If She Did, She Never Did Say So to Daddy
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