HIDee Bro Mike!~

Gotta admit this'n' sure Made Me Squirm on First Read... ;-)>

"turning to the bad" is ALREADY doin' so..it's a not that-often-heard Colloquialism.

"How good was my Daddy's advice to me" is a Fine Example of "YodaSpeak"..Poetic, yeah, but NOT "Conversational"/Easy-to-Understand.

Un-Labeled "First" Chorus generally SUX...SHOULDA of course TOLD Us Listeners WHAT Daddy Had To SAY..but fails miserably. All the "E" Rhymes sound fairly Trite, too.

Next Verse has an Obviously-Bad Ryhme Pair, "back/thank"..& Number of Lines has Changed from V1...from 7 down to 6 now.
There's no REAL Hint of "Depth" in this Child-Parent Relationship..(Perhaps a VISIT would mean far more than a Thank-You Letter..at this Stage of the Game?)

Bridge is All Over The Map. No FOCUS on what makes this Song SPECIAL...or Dad either..for that matter. Singer seems Clueless. DID remember Dad's After-Shave..(What a Hoot!)..not much more.

NOW...if there was something REAL..and CONNECTABLE about Dear Ol' Dad.. BESIDES the Old Spice...this'd be FAR More Interestin' & Commercial. I LOVE Alan Jackson's "DRIVE"...& when he puts ya behind that Evinrude his Dad let him fire up, you fast-realize that HIS DAD was One Wonderfully Wise, Fun-Lovin' Hombre!!!

Not so..here..alas!

(Prolly Just Me...but "23" ain't exactly too "Elderly" either..so the "when I was young" line's a Stinker, too!)

Lotsa Fun Critiquin' this little Limburger Baby, Amigo!

Big Guy-Hug,
Stan