A song as lovely in 2019 as it was in the 1950s. My uncles and grandfather would say “thank heaven for little girls” to me and it has been an endearing memory.
i'm only 15 and just happened to find this song after i heard it in a play i watched a while back and looked it up later. it's a quaint little thing and i'm happy to have found it.
This song came out about 10 years after the end of world war two.. back then the attitude and culture was one that is hard to understand today. MOST of the world was sufferring from ptsd and people were just satisfied to be alive... they had lost everything and had to focus on the small blessings of life.. the simple things like the love of life. People today are so corrupted and full of synicism and negativity they always assume the worst in people... this is why this song could not have been released in modern times
All that's been said here before may be true (as far as the dirty old man stuff goes), but my dad, who was a veteran of WWII, danced to this song at all 4 of his daughters' weddings as the dad/daughter dance, And we all loved it! (as did all of the guests)
This is from the good ol days before everyone thought everyone's neighbor was a pedophile. Thank goodness for special interest groups perpetuating fear, anger & contempt!
I love this song! It reminds me of when I was little or like a little girl dancing ballet as she gets older,laughing and giggling. :) I don't see it as a pedo song at all.
I dedicate this to my dear Grandmother Elizabeth who being born on 14 March 1900 would in this earthly life would have been 117 yesterday, thank you for looking down on me. x