A Custom-Made Song for Your Dad This Father's Day

Your father tells the same six stories. You could recite the one about the '92 flood from memory, including the place where he pauses, and he is going to tell it again in July. In most families that gets treated as a running joke. It is also decades of material he wrote himself without ever calling it that.

So listen for a week and write things down. He answers the phone the same way every single time. The truck has a name. He has one sentence for when he is leaving a party and another for when a repair quote is too high. He re-loads the dishwasher after anyone else has touched it. None of that asks you to produce a sentimental paragraph about what he means to you, which is the part most people stall on.

Written that way, the song belongs to him rather than to the third Sunday in June. It is a file, so it can live on his phone and play through whatever speaker is out in the workshop, and it does not get used up the way a bottle or a steak does.

You do not have to write it and you do not have to know what to say. Send the phrases, the truck, the job he did for thirty years, and one thing he taught you that you still do. We write and produce it from there.

Original, studio-quality song, $19.99, in your email inbox within 24 hours.

Open the order form and start with the way he answers the phone.