"My Heart Belongs to Daddy" is a song written by Cole Porter, for the 1938 musical Leave It to Me! It was introduced by Mary Martin, who reprised it in the 1940 movie Love Thy Neighbor and, as herself, in the 1946 Cole Porter biopic Night and Day, which starred Cary Grant and Alexis Smith. In Britain, it was a hit for Pat Kirkwood who performed it in the 1938 revue Black Velvet, making her the first wartime star,[1] and so the song was thereafter associated with her.[2]
The song contains one of Porter's most obscure lyrics among its several rhymes for "daddy" - in which the singer talks about her "fine finnan haddie", a Scottish term for smoked haddock.
Referring specifically to the melody, Oscar Levant described it as "one of the most Yiddish tunes ever written" despite the fact that "Cole Porter's genetic background was completely alien to any Jewishness."[3]
While tearing off a game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But when I do, I don't follow through
Cause my heart belongs to Daddy
If I invite a boy some night
To dine on my fine food and haddie
I just adore, his asking for more
But my heart belongs to Daddy
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
So I simply couldn't be bad
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Daaaad
So I want to warn you laddie
Though I know that you're perfectly swell
That my heart belongs to Daddy
Cause my Daddy, he treats it so well
While tearing off a game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But when I do, I don't follow through
Cause my heart belongs to Daddy
If I invite a boy some night
To cook up some hot enchilada
Though Spanish rice is all very nice
My heart belongs to Daddy
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
So I simply couldn't be bad
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Daaaad
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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy
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