A Father's Day song he won't know what to do with
He says he doesn't want anything. He means he doesn't want things. A song about the ute, the coaching years and his terrible jokes is not a thing.
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Dads are hard to buy for because most of what they want cannot be wrapped. A personalised Father's Day song gets round that: it is about the skill he insisted on teaching you, the joke everyone groans at, the Saturday mornings on the sideline. Put it in the genre he actually listens to — country, classic rock, folk — and it lands as affection rather than fuss.
You write the story, read every line, and hear two recordings before you choose one. Play it at the barbecue, send the link if he's far away, or add it to a gift page with the photo of him you've been saving. He'll say it's a bit much. He'll play it again when you've left.
Hear one first
What a Father's Day song sounds like
Measure Twice
AcousticSix a.m. ice on the windscreen
Your scraper singing its cold song
You taught me measure twice
Not only wood, but right and wrong
Gerald, I know what it cost you
That second job when I was fifteen
I never said, but I'm saying now
You gave me more than you were seen
Every line came from a story someone typed in. Yours will read like this — with their name, their details, in the genre you choose.
Ideas
Father's Day song ideas
What actually goes in one. Pick a couple — the song only needs two or three true things to stand on.
The lesson he wouldn't stop teaching
Reversing a trailer, changing a tyre, keeping your word. It's the second verse, and it's the one he'll pretend not to hear.
His joke, word for word
The one from every road trip. In a country song it becomes a chorus; that's what it was always trying to be.
The time he showed up
The drive at 2am, the game he didn't miss, the call he made. Name the day.
In his genre, not yours
A classic-rock nod, a folk-country ballad, an acoustic track. He'll know it's for him before the first line.
For a stepdad, a grandad, or the man who did the job
Father's Day is for whoever taught you to ride the bike. Write it for him.
Pick a direction
Choose the tone, we'll set the dials
Each option starts the wizard with the occasion, genre and mood already selected — you just tell the story.
What to write
Story prompts that make it theirs
You don't need to be a writer — answer two or three of these in plain sentences and the lyrics will do the rest.
- The skill he insisted on teaching you
- His joke — the one everyone groans at
- A time he showed up without being asked
- The thing you never quite say to each other
How it works
Making a Father's Day song, start to finish
Step 1
Tell the story
Answer a few questions about them in plain sentences — the story prompts above are a start. Pick a genre, a voice and a mood, or take one of the Father's Day tones.
Step 2
Read the lyrics
The words come back first. Change any line, swap a name, cut a verse — nothing is sung until you've said yes to every word.
Step 3
Hear it, then choose
Two full recordings of your approved lyrics, usually within 3–8 minutes, each about two minutes (one to three, depending on how much you write). Hear the first minute of both free; pay A$39 for the one you keep. It arrives as a gift page and an MP3.
The full price list, what each tier includes and who owns the song are on the pricing page.
Who it's for
A Father's Day song for…
Each of these pages has its own prompts, tones and a sample written for that relationship.
Questions
Father's Day questions
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