On Thursday night, June 18th, superstar Luke Bryan offered a live take of the new song with a poignant, socially distanced performance for The Tonight Show. The country crooner pulled on heartstrings with a performance of “Build Me a Daddy” just in time for Father’s Day weekend.
“Build Me a Daddy” will be on Bryan’s upcoming new album Born Here Live Here Die Here, out August 7th, 2020.
“A boy walks past a window of a glowing ‘open’ sign/ Full of wooden toys and trucks and painted trains/ Rings a bell up on the counter, hands a picture to the man/ Of a kid beside a soldier smilin’ away/ Said, ‘Sir, I’ve heard you can build anything’/ ‘Could you build me a daddy?'” Bryan asks in the first verse of the emotional ballad, from the perspective of a child who’s lost his father.
Watch Bryan’s full performance below:
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