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My Dad is my hero. Plain, and simple. He’s raised me as a single father since I was 5-years-old, and I owe everything that I am, and that I have to him. Sure, life wasn’t always a bowlful of cherries for us, but he did everything in his power over the years to make sure I was happy, and had everything I needed (and, wanted, lol). I wouldn’t go as far as saying that I was spoiled (*cough*), but he always looked out for me.. he still does..

That being said, I’ve been on the look-out for the best Daddy/Daughter dance song, since I can remember..
‘Butterfly Kisses' is great, and just thinking about it makes me tear up, but honestly, that doesn’t take much (read: over-emotional bride-to-be.. senior citizens make me cry, babies, kittens, commercials, etc.). It’s just not ‘us’, either.
‘Isn’t She Lovely’ (I love you, Mr. Wonder!), or ‘What A Wonderful World’, are close, too (he raised me on oldies), but I don’t think those fit ‘us’, either..

HRUMPH!
I was about to put my search on hold, when out of nowhere, I found it! The other night while watching ‘Knocked Up’, I heard it while the end credits rolled..

Loudon Wainwright III's - 'Daughter'

It’s just.. perfect (for the lack of a better word.. ;]).

The lyrics:

Everything she sees
she says she wants.
Everything she wants
I see she gets.

That's my daughter in the water
everything she owns I bought her
Everything she owns.
That's my daughter in the water,
everything she knows I taught her.
Everything she knows.

Everything I say
she takes to heart.
Everything she takes
she takes apart.

That's my daughter in the water
every time she fell I caught her.
Every time she fell.
That's my daughter in the water,
I lost every time I fought her.
I lost every time.

Every time she blinks
she strikes somebody blind.
Everything she thinks
blows her tiny mind.
That's my daughter in the water,
who'd have ever thought her?
Who'd have ever thought?
That's my daughter in the water,
I lost every time I fought her
Yeah, I lost every time.

(Instrumental until the end)

I’m sitting here in tears, as I listen to it over-and-over again, writing this. It just fits. From the wanting of everything, to the getting; the fights he lost (he’s a softy/pushover! ;]); the water (he always calls me his water baby).. it’s ‘us’.

The only problem?

HE HATES IT.
I played it for him last weekend when DD, and I went to visit him, and he vetoed it pretty-much right out of the gate. The lyrics are what speak to me, but he could hardly get past the instrumental part in the beginning, because it's "too country" (lol, who would have though my Dad was a music snob?).

The first song he suggested was 'Only You' (he raised me on oldies, remember), but it just doesn't scream 'father/daughter dance' to me!
My next choice would be 'Father and Daughter' by Paul Simon, but I wouldn't be surprised if he vetoes that, too..

I really want something that speaks of my love for him, and all he's done for me through the years, but each song I find is way too 'country' for his liking..

What are some really sappy, non-country songs I could show him? Any ideas?

I am dancing with my dad to Billy Joel's "Lullabye".  VERY sentimental but very sweet....we ALSO have a tedency to swing each other around other people's wedding to the song "Cotton Eye Joe"...and we are horrible dancers and everyone laughs and loves it.....  My dad Hates!...sentimental So...the plan...we play my song and have the DJ scratch it into "cotton eye joe" half way through. 

Could you play your song for a bit and then have them shift into something that your dad could rock you around the floor to that he loves from the oldies?

Thanks for all the great suggestions, ladies! I think I'm going to make him a CD/booklet of lyrics, etc., and let him choose from there.. I'm sure we'll figure something out!