A popular song from 1970.
Words by Peter Callander.
Music by Geoff Stephens.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- The love between the two of us was dyin’
And it got so bad I knew I had to leave
But halfway down that highway
When I turned around
I saw my little daughter
Runnin’ after me, cryin’
Refrain
“Daddy don’t you walk so fast
Daddy don’t you walk so fast
Daddy slow down some
‘Cos you’re makin’ me run
Daddy don’t you walk so fast”
If only for the sake of my sweet daughter
I just had to turn back home right there and then
And try to start a new life
With the mother of my child
I couldn’t bear to hear those words again
As she said “Daddy don’t you walk so fast
Daddy don’t you walk so fast
Daddy slow down some
‘Cos you’re makin’ me run
Daddy don’t you walk so fast
Daddy slow down some
‘Cos you’re makin’ me run
Daddy don’t you walk so fast
- It broke my heart to tell my little daughter
That her daddy had to run and catch a train
She had no way of knowing
I was leavin’ home for good
I turned around and
There she was again, cryin’