Elvis Songs: Don't Cry Daddy

Written by: Mac Davis

Recorded: January 15, 1969, American Sound Studios, Memphis

Single:w/ "Rubberneckin'", 47-9768, November 1969
Also re-released as Gold Standard Series, 447-0674, December 1970

RIAA Certified: Platinum (as of 03/27/1992)

Highest U.S. Charts Positions:
#6 on Billboard's Top 100
#13 on Country chart

1st LP release: Elvis: Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits, Vol 1 - August 1970

Mac Davis' weeper ballad "Don't Cry Daddy" is a nice example of Elvis harmonizing with himself, and the song was a hit in late 1969.

Don't cry, I'll write more later. Meanwhile, dig the links and stuff!

"Don't Cry Daddy" is a difficult song: it can be seen as mawkishly sentimental, but Presley's performance is musically worthwile. It is a very morbid song, but it is possible to imagine that Presley believed in it.

Robert Matthew-Walker, Elvis Presley - A Study In Music, 1979

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Today I stumbled from my bed
With thunder crashing in my head
My pillow still wet
From last night tears
And as I think of giving up
A voice inside my coffee cup
Kept crying but
And ringing in my ears

Chorus:
Don't cry daddy
Daddy, please don't cry
Daddy, you've still got me and little Tommy
Together we'll find a brand new mommy
Daddy, daddy, please laugh again
Daddy ride us on your back again
Oh, daddy, please don't cry

Why are children always first
To feel the pain and hurt the worst
It's true, but somehow
It just don't seem right
'Cause ev'ry time I cry I know
It hurts my little children so
I wonder will it be the same tonight

Repeat Chorus