Songwriter: John Mellencamp
Producer: John Mellencamp
[Verse 1]
You used to raise your voice so that it could be heard
Used to shout out your orders and your word was the final word
Do as I say and not as I do
They've taken your picture off the wall
How does it feel to be the big daddy of them all?
[Verse 2]
You used to chase your women right into your home
You used to tell them you loved them over the telephone
Now they all see through you and you're sinking like a stone
No one knocking at your door, no one calls
How does it feel to be the big daddy of them all?
[Verse 3]
You're sad and disgusted is what you've grown up to be
Bet you had no idea what your dream would turn out to be
But when you live for yourself, hell, it's hard on everyone
But you did it your way and man you did it all
How does it feel to be the big daddy of them all?
[Outro]
Now you did it your way and man you did it all
How does it feel to be the big daddy of them all?
You used to raise your voice so that it could be heard
Used to shout out your orders and your word was the final word
Do as I say and not as I do
They've taken your picture off the wall
How does it feel to be the big daddy of them all?
[Verse 2]
You used to chase your women right into your home
You used to tell them you loved them over the telephone
Now they all see through you and you're sinking like a stone
No one knocking at your door, no one calls
How does it feel to be the big daddy of them all?
[Verse 3]
You're sad and disgusted is what you've grown up to be
Bet you had no idea what your dream would turn out to be
But when you live for yourself, hell, it's hard on everyone
But you did it your way and man you did it all
How does it feel to be the big daddy of them all?
[Outro]
Now you did it your way and man you did it all
How does it feel to be the big daddy of them all?
more tracks from the album
On the Rural Route 7609
- The Real Life
- Your Life Is Now
- Don’t Need This Body
- Sweet Evening Breeze
- The Full Catastrophe
- My Aeroplane
- Troubled Land
- Someday the Rains Will Fall
- Theo and Weird Henry
- Women Seem
- Between a Laugh and a Tear
- If I Die Sudden
- Peaceful World
- To Washington
- Colored Lights
- The World Don’t Bother Me None
- Jack and Diane (Writing Demo)
- Jenny at 16
- Rain on the Scarecrow
- Jim Crow
- Big Daddy of Them All
- What If I Came Knocking
- Longest Days
- Sugar Marie
- Mr. Bellows
- Deep Blue Heart
- Love and Happiness
- Someday
- Forgiveness
- To M.G. (Wherever She May Be)
- For the Children
- Freedom’s Road
- Our Country (Alternative Version)
- Jim Crow
- Thank You
- Ghost Towns Along the Highway
- Jackie Brown
- Cherry Bomb
- Jack & Diane
- L.U.V.
- County Fair
- When Jesus Left Birmingham
- Country Gentleman
- Rural Route
- Void in My Heart
- Just Like You
- Rodeo Clown
- A Ride Back Home
- Authority Song
- Grandma’s Theme
- Death Letter
- Young Without Lovers
- Pink Houses
From the albums
- Big Daddy (1989)
- On the Rural Route 7609 (2010)
John Mellencamp popular songs
- Jack & Diane
- Pink Houses
- Hurts So Good
- Small Town
- Check It Out
- Authority Song
- Rain on the Scarecrow
- I Need a Lover
- Cherry Bomb
- Nothing’s for Free
- Cold Sweat (Live)
- Wild Night (Acoustic version)
- Crazy Island
- The Face of the Nation
- Days of Farewell
- Get a Leg Up
- Rodeo Clown
- When Margaret Comes to Town
- I Ain’t Ever Satisfied
- Junior
- Just Like You
- Lonely Ol’ Night (live)
- Great Mid-West
- Take Home Pay