Lyrics to
Daddy Come And Get Me

This version of Daddy Come And Get Me was released by Dolly Parton in 1970.

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In this mental institution, lookin’ out through these iron bars
How could he put me in here, how could he go that far
Yes I need help but not this kind, he didn’t love me from the start
But it’s not my mind that’s broken, it’s my heart
Oh Daddy come and get me and take me home with you
I’m depending on you Daddy, there’s nothing I can do
And you said that I could come to you if I ever was in need
But Daddy I can’t come to you, you’ll have to come to me

When he said he loved another, I was crazy with jealousy
That’s ’cause I was crazy over him and I couldn’t stand to set him free
And I couldn’t stand to lose him and I cried and cried for days
And he said that I was crazy but he just put me in here to get me out of his way
Daddy come and get me

Oh Daddy come and get me and take me home with you
I’m depending on you Daddy ’cause there’s nothing else I can do
And you said that I could come to you if I ever was in need
But Daddy I can’t come to you, you’ll have to come to me

Oh Daddy, come and get me

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides Daddy Come And Get Me. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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The lyrics for Daddy Come And Get Me are defined as the words making up the song released by Dolly Parton in 1970. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Daddy Come And Get Me have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Dolly Parton and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Daddy Come And Get Me by Dolly Parton if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Daddy Come And Get Me" means the words set to the music of Daddy Come And Get Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Dolly Parton. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Daddy Come And Get Me and the lyrics to Daddy Come And Get Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Dolly Parton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Daddy Come And Get Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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