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Top 7 all-time greatest songs about being a dad

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Your experience of music changes dramatically once you become a dad, and not just because the entire Wiggles back catalogue is now burnt into your brain (“did someone say “Toot Toot, Chuga Chuga, Big Red Car”?).
But you also find that certain lyrics in your old playlists now resonate more deeply.
Most songs about being a dad tend to be mawkish and sentimental, not to mention downright slow. They’re generally piano ballads (Billy Joel’s “Lullabye”), slow jams (Beyonce’s “Daddy”) or country strummers (Trace Adkins’ “You’re Gonna Miss This”).
Fortunately, it is possible to capture the tribulations and joys of fatherhood without resorting to pedal steel and string quartets.
Here are seven fatherhood classics that have stood the test of time. And while you’ve probably heard them a thousand times before, they’re worth a revisit with the new perspective of fatherhood.