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

I Don't Want to Be Like My Daddy

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)