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Pearl Jam – Daughter
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One of Pearl Jam’s more well-known songs off of Vs is about a misunderstood child with a learning disability. The child is abused by her parents, thus, Eddy Vedder says, “the
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John Mayer – Daughters
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Daughters is the 8th track off of Mayer’s 2003 album and 3rd studio EP, Heavier Things.
The song won the 2004 Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 47th Grammy Awards
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Damien Rice (Ft. Lisa Hannigan) – The Blower's Daughter
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Perhaps best remembered for its inclusion in the 2004 motion picture Closer, “The Blower’s Daughter” is among Damien Rice’s most well-known songs.
The song is the first of two
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Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter
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This song ponders human sexuality and the moral boundaries that society has set on our reproductive organs, with the struggle between fascism and communism in the early 1900’s as a
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Alison Krauss & Union Station – The Captain's Daughter
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[Verse 1] / I'm a poor boy as you know / But I love the Captain's daughter so / If I begged her would she go? / Or would she tell me no, no, no, no, no? / [Verse 2] / Daddy is a
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Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner's Daughter
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Well, I was born the coal miner's daughter / In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler / We were poor, but we had love / That's the one thing that Daddy made sure of / He shoveled
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Bedouine – Solitary Daughter
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[Verse 1] / With the conviction of the woman you made me / I find blades of grass from the island you lent me / I find on every floor, in every drawer / Though I'm not an island, I
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The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – Reilly's Daughter
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As I was sitting by the fire / Eating spuds and drinking porter / Suddenly a thought came into my mind / I'd like to marry old Reilly's daughter / Giddy i-ae Giddy i-ae Giddy i-ae
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Daughter – Smother
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[Verse 1] / I'm wasted, losing time / I'm a foolish, fragile spine / I want all that is not mine / I want him but we're not right / [Chorus] / In the darkness I will meet my
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Original Broadway Cast of Jagged Little Pill (Ft. Celia Rose Gooding) – Unprodigal Daughter
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After Frankie and her parents get into a huge fight about sex and consent, Frankie runs away to New York, where on the train she sings about the possibilities she has on her own.
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Pop Evil (Ft. Mick Mars) – Boss's Daughter
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That girl, she's a loaded gun / Gonna take 'em out take 'em one by one / She knows when she's dressed to kill / She'll put a bullet in your heart just to feel the thrill / She
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Loudon Wainwright III – Daughter
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[Verse 1] / Everything she sees / She says she wants / Everything she wants / I see she gets / [Chorus] / That's my daughter in the water / Everything she owns I bought her
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Rilo Kiley – A Better Son/Daughter
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From the 2002 album The Execution of All Things, “A Better Son/Daughter” is one of frontwoman Jenny Lewis’s most personal songs, detailing a deeply wounded speaker who eventually
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NLE Choppa – Letter to My Daughter
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Released on Father’s Day, “Letter To My Daughter” shows NLE Choppa seeking to be a present father. The song is dedicated to his daughter, Clover, who was born on June 20th of 2020
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S.J. Tucker – Valkyrie Daughter
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Valhalla is ever receiving / As her sons are forever at war / But her gates are not barred, as you may have been told / To the women and children worth fighting for / Time was that
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Crystal Bowersox – Farmer's Daughter
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“Farmer’s Daughter” is a song by Crystal Bowersox, released as the lead single from her debut album, Farmer’s Daughter. Though the song did not chart on the US Billboard Hot 100
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Carousel – Jeweler’s Daughter
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What have I gotten myself into? / Can't seem to get myself out / I didn't know what she could do / What she was all about / Should've known from the very first time / I was in over
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David Knopfler – Madonna's Daughter
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The darkest of angels / Runs with the night / Checking out of Heaven / She’s the angel's shining light / Through the clublands of Babel / A dancer in the crowd / Watch her steal
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Naaz – daughter
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[Verse 1] / The simplest questions / Are the hardest to answer / I better not end up killing you / 'Cause then what do I tell the coppers / That you killed me first? / No, you can'
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Hole – Nobody's Daughter
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“Nobody’s Daughter” is the title track of alternative-rock band Hole’s fourth album. The title comes from lead singer Courtney Love’s strange lineage which produces children
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Nahko – Creation's Daughter
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[Verse 1] / Stoned on a stone on the Truckee River / So lost in thought / Oh, the things I remember / One of them's your pretty face / Another's the things it would say / (Things
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Greg Brown – Rexroth's Daughter
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Coldest night of the winter working up my farewell / In the middle of everything under no particular spell / I am dreaming of the mountains where the children learn the stars
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The Longest Johns – The Captain's Daughter
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[Verse 1] / When I was just a lad of twelve, I joined a skipper's crew / To sail about the ocean wide, in search of treasures new / But failed to batten down a hatch, I let in
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Grandaddy – Hewlett's Daughter
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Jason Lytle stated that this song is about someone he dated. It reads like an apology to a father for not staying with his daughter.
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Sa-Roc (Ft. Ledisi) – The Sharecropper's Daughter
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[Intro: Ledisi] / Do you know who you are? / Do you know where you been? / My friends / We belong to the stars / And we blow with the wind / Amen / I've seen the mountains / I've
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Isabel Pless – Eldest Daughter
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[Verse 1] / I'm back on my eldest daughter bullshit / Drawn towards broken people like a magnet / Pull out my toolkit / Hammer you back into place / Proficient in tension headaches
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Herman's Hermits – Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
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[Verse 1] / Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter / Girls as sharp as her are something rare / But it's sad, she doesn't love me now / She's made it clear enough, it ain't no
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Kate Rusby – The Cobbler's Daughter
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[Verse 1] / I am a cobbler's daughter / I'm thought of rude and mean / But a finer and a bonnier lass / Well, you have never seen / I've plagued my father's head / For my life I
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Queen – Son and Daughter
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“Son and Daughter” was written by May and was the B-side for the single “Keep Yourself Alive”. The song was played in the very first concert under the name of Queen in 1970. It was
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I Draw Slow – Lighthouse Daughter
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Born the only daughter of a farmer / I could never work that rocky plain / I found myself a husband I could fend for / I took Matilda Winter as my name / I did what he asked / And
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Deep Purple – Anyone's Daughter
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[Verse 1] / I stood under your bedroom window / Throwing up a brick / No one came I threw one more / That really did the trick / Your daddy came and banged my head / He said what
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The Sword – The Frost-Giant's Daughter
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Waiting for dawn on the snow-covered tundra / Your foes lying dead at your feet / Look to the sky for a good star to guide you / And pray that the morning you'll meet / Tresses of
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Rodney Atkins – Farmer's Daughter
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“Farmer’s Daughter” bears some structural similarity to a few difficult Judeo-Christian myths, notably the Grimm Brother’s myth, Iron John: http://portitude.org/literature/grimm/ft
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Dia jane – Father’s Daughter
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[Verse 1] / Always trying to be better / Than you were to me / Had to throw out all the letters / Just to help me breathe / And it's been some time and I moved on fine / But there'
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