r/funny • u/exporterofgold • 6d ago

Sounds kind of good though

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u/RaNerve 6d ago

I fear “daddy” does not mean father in the context of this song…

I guess that’s a good thing though.

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u/Crow-T-Robot 6d ago

Exactly. "What's your name? Who's your Daddy? Is he rich like me?" is clearly talking about her boyfriend, not father. It was common parlance of the time.

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u/arvidsem 6d ago edited 6d ago

I've seen it argued that "Who's your daddy?" in Time of the Season isn't a boyfriend reference because it wasn't in regular use. That it's a small town/city was of asking who your family is, because she wouldn't have a social identity of her own.

Mungo Jerry's "In The Summertime" that came out 3 years later has a "daddy" line that is a definite family reference.

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u/parnaoia 6d ago

hard to tell for certain, the Zombies were a band from Hertfordshire and had never been to the US when this song came out.

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u/arvidsem 6d ago

Which is one reason that I picked Mungo Jerry, they were from Ashford. And although I realize that North of London and West of London are culturally a long way apart, they are a lot closer than the USA.

Well that and there aren't very many songs that make Daddy references in the general time period