Lyrics to
I’m Her Daddy

This version of I’M Her Daddy was released by Bill Withers in 1971.

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How do you do, Lucy?
You sure been hard to find.
I heard you had a daughter
Six years old and
I just can’t keep from cry’n’.

Six years Lucy, Lord have mercy,
That’s a long time, that’s a long time.
Is she pretty, has she grown?
Does she sleep well in a room of her own?
Can I see her?
Does she know that I’m her daddy, I’m her daddy?
Did you give her one of my pictures?
Does she carry yeh, yeh, picture with her?
Does she show it to the baby sitter, and say,
“See that man, that’s my daddy, that’s my daddy?”
You should ‘a told me, Lucy, You should ‘a told me, Lucy,
Yeh, you should ‘a told me, Lucy.

Oh, Lucy. Oh, Lucy. Oh, Lucy. Oh, Lucy.
You should ‘a told me Lucy.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to I’M Her Daddy, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Bill Withers. Some of the lyrics to I’M Her Daddy have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bill Withers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to I’M Her Daddy if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 I’M Her Daddy" means the words set to the music of I’M Her Daddy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bill Withers. 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 I’M Her Daddy and the lyrics to I’M Her Daddy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bill Withers who came here looking just for the lyrics to I’M Her Daddy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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