I Love My Daughter

I Love My Daughter
Performer(s): Darryl Whitefetaher — First Appearance: "Josh and I Are Good People!"
— Genre: Country

‘Cause I love my daughter, but not in a creepy way, though I realize father/daughter love comes off that way.I just love my daughter—but again, not in a creepy way.

— Darryl Whitefetaher

"I Love My Daughter" is a song performed by Darryl Whitefeather. In it he expresses his deep affection for his daughter Madison Whitefeather. The song was first heard in the Season One episode"Josh and I Are Good People!".

The song with lyrics

Lyrics: Daddy’s little girl, princess of my world, I never knew a beauty like this before. So clever and cute, an angel with an attitude, I want her, all mine, all of the time. I know songs like this can come off weird. But there’s nothing weird about helping daddy trim is beard! Dads do that. ‘Cause I love my daughter, but not in a creepy way, Though I realize father/daughter love comes off that way. I just love my daughter—but again, not in a creepy way. The father/daughter dance, surrounded by adorable girls, But there’s only one that’s got my eye. Her feet on my shoes, her hands on my hips, Yeah, it’s a weird visual, now that I think of it. I know lines like that can skeeve people out, But when it comes to tickling, whoo-hoo, She ‘bout to get it now! I’m very careful where I tickle my daughter, Never inappropriately. I can see how that came out a little bit confusingly, I just love my daughter, But seriously, not in a creepy way. One day she’ll fall in love, and I’ll give her away— Not that I ever had her, what a weird thing to say. I can see it now, she’ll look just like her mom— Granted, I did have sex with her mom— Oh, but this is different ‘Cause I love my daughter, but not in a love-love way, Do you get what I –uh, what I mean to say is I’ll just stop talking. Having a daughter is weird.

Notes

Inspiration

The song is based on country music, specifically songs like Bob Carlisle's "Butterfly Kisses."

Song revisions

In an interview with Variety.com, Music producer Adam Schlesinger and his collaborator Steven M. Gold noted that this song went through a lot of changes due to Standards & Practices objections to the original racier lyrics. Schlesinger mentioned the original joke of the song was that Darryl was saying things that pointed to him possibly being a pedophile. The joke was changed instead to Darryl being unable to express his love for his daughter without him sounding creepy.

Reprise

The song's lyrics and melody were reprised in the Season Two episode song "Rebecca's Reprise".