The Games That Daddies Play
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The Games That Daddies Play is a country song by Conway Twitty. It was his 17th #1 hit.
The song tells of a seven-year-old boy, raised by a single mother, who asks if he can go on an overnight trip with Billy Parker (his friend) and Billy's dad, and engage in "games daddies play", that being traditional father-son activities such as hiking, fishing, and father-son conversations.
His mother cries at the request, realizing he's asking a deeper question: where is his own father? She has to sadly tell him that both of them were the victim of "another kind of game that daddies play" -- that being his father abandoned them six years earlier.