Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast

(album: Eddy Arnold Sings For Housewives & Other Lovers - 1972)

The love between the two of us was dying
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 running after me

Crying, daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, slow down some, 'cause you're making me run
Daddy, don't you walk so fast

It broke my heart to tell my little daughter
That her daddy had to run to catch a train
She had no way of knowing I was leaving home for good
I turned around and there was again

Crying, daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, slow down some, 'cause you're making 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

Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Won't you slow down some, 'cause you're making me run
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, slow down some, 'cause you're making me run
Daddy, don't you walk so fast