Father’s Day
He still checks your tires and lectures you before every road trip. You still call him first when something breaks.
A Father’s Day song from a daughter, for the dad who still worries
Dads and daughters have their own language: the nickname, the lecture before every road trip, the dance at somebody’s wedding. Put three of those in a song and he gets something no store sells.
Hear the second a name lands
Nguyen, you are the anchor of my life.
You wrote“He still calls me kiddo.”
The song singsI'm still your kiddo, my dear Nguyen.
From a real song made here: “My Anchor, Nguyen”, for Nguyen, from what his daughter typed.
The moment you give it
He's been up since five like always. He finds his reading glasses to watch it properly, and his next text is the nickname he has called you since you were small, and nothing else.
Father's Day, 7 am, he's already up
your kiddo made you something
Read
Reading glasses on. Playing it now.
Start with one memory
Pick a question. The form opens with your first line already started.
A real Father’s Day song from a daughter
Nguyen’s daughter wrote about a taxi, soccer games and a fishing pier; this is the song.
What you get for $12.99
You hear it first, free. You pay once, only if you keep it.
- Free preview
- The first 60 seconds, ready in about two minutes after you enter your email. No card.
- The song
- The full song, about two minutes long, as an MP3 to download and keep.
- Lyrics
- Every line is on the preview page before you pay. Unlocking adds the lyric sheet, to print or save as a PDF.
- Their link
- A private link that plays the whole song without an account, with your name and a short note. Switch it off any time.
- Photo video
- Free: a vertical 9:16 photo video of your photos with the lyrics on screen, plus 15- and 30-second cuts. Made in your browser.
- The name
- Unusual name? Type how to say it (SEER-sha for Saoirse) and the singer says it that way.
- Re-record
- One free re-record per song: change a line, the style or the voice and record it again.
- Name sung wrong?
- After you pay, a free remake with the name fixed, once per song.
- Languages
- Sung in English, German, French, Spanish or Japanese.
- Teaser
- Before you pay, a 15-second teaser link that tells them a song is on its way.
- For this song
- Family in another country? Pick the language they speak at home in the form, and the whole song, chorus and name included, is sung in it.
- Want a nudge next year? Opt in and we email you three weeks and one week before the date.
Dad-and-daughter details
- The nickname he still uses, even now.
- The driving lesson, the parking lot, the way he gripped the door handle.
- A dance: at a wedding, in the kitchen, standing on his feet when you were small.
- The advice he gives before every trip.
- What he did the first time someone broke your heart.
- Something you do now exactly the way he does it.
What the Nguyen song shows
The Father’s Day sample on this page was written by a daughter, and her brief had no big statements. He drove a taxi in Houston for twenty years, never missed one of her soccer games, taught her to fish on Galveston pier and to fix a flat in the rain, and still calls her kiddo. The song is country with a male voice, and the nickname made it into the lyrics.
His voice or yours
A male voice makes the song sound like a tribute he can sing along to; a female voice makes it sound like it comes straight from you. Go with whatever he actually plays in the car.
Before the third Sunday in June
Father’s Day in the US falls on the third Sunday of June. Send your lines that morning if you need to: the preview is ready in about two minutes and the full song unlocks as soon as you pay.
More song ideas
Questions
The dad who still worries, in a chorus.
Start with what you call him and the advice he always gives.