I Don't Want to Be Like My Daddy - The Nightingales

As I was walkin' through the park one night

Wrapped up in my own thoughts

When I heard a small voice cryin' in the night

And I rushed over to see what the matter could be

And much to my surprise I saw a small boy with tears in his eyes

I said: «Son, what in the world can the matter be?», yeah

He looked up at me with his big, brown eyes

People, he said something that almost made me cry

He said:

«I don’t want to be like my daddy» (I don’t want to be like my daddy)

Oh, no, he said it one more time

He said: «Oh, don’t let me be, be like my daddy» (I don’t want to be like my

daddy)

Oh, no, no, no

He wanted to tell me, he said:

«My daddy comes home late at night

You know, he just don’t, he just don’t treat my poor mama right

He stays away sometimes three and four days at a time

Then he comes home and I can hear my poor mama crying

And that’s why

I don’t want, oh don’t want to be, no, no, no" (I don’t want to be like my

daddy)

Oh, no, he said it one more time

He said: «Oh, just don’t let me be, don’t let me be like my daddy»

(I don’t want to be like my daddy)

Oh, no, no, no

You know what got to me, he said:

«Mr Icebox, ha, ha, is always there

I don’t know what we would do if my mama wasn’t there

You know he gets drunk, and throws all his money away

You see, my daddy’s the kind of man, he just loves to play

And that’s why

I don’t want" (I don’t want to be like my daddy)

Oh, no

«Oh, don’t let me be, be like my daddy» (I don’t want to be like my daddy)

«I don’t want» (I don’t want to be like my daddy)