First choice would, of course, be your father's favourite song - if he had one (and you know what it was).
OTHER GOOD CHOICES (IMO):
Paul Burkhard: O mein Papa - the #1 classic "father" tribute song
Schubert: Bei dem Grabe meines Vaters (At the grave of my father), D.496 (also set by Zumsteeg, #5 in Vol. 5 of his Kleine Balladen und Lieder) - a lovely tribute to a dead father (not good for non-Christian fathers due to the Jesus Christ reference in the text)
Phil Coulter: The Old Man (an Irish folk-song paying tribute to a dead father)
Eric Clapton: My Father's Eyes
A few others:
Janacek: Muj drahy taticku (My dear papa) - #21 of his Zapisnik zmizeleho
Delius: Herbst - #4 of his Five Danish Songs
Cole Porter: My heart belongs to Daddy :)
And some you DON'T want to sing on Father's Day:
Harry Nilsson: Daddy's Song (whether you read this as a song about a father abandoning the family, or about a father dying, it's really too sad for a holiday!)
Henze: The Worker - #17 of his Stimmen (a factory working father dying of work-related disease)
Stravinsky: In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (setting of Thomas' "Do not go gentle into that good night" - written by Thomas to his dying father).
Rorem (also David Diamond): My Papa's Waltz (reminiscences about an abusive father)
Robert Jordahl: My Daddy (Ogden Nash's ostensible "nursery rhyme" [yeah, right] speculating his children's thoughts on having him as a father.)
Harry Chapin: Cat's in the Cradle
Karen Mercedes http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html ______________________________________ I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 1 Corinthians 14:15
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