My Heart Belongs to Daddy

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For the Desperate Housewives episode, see My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Desperate Housewives episode).

My Heart Belongs to Daddy is a song written by Cole Porter in 1938. A staple of the American songbook, it has been recorded by a huge number of singers, including Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe.

It was introduced by Mary Martin in the musical Leave It to Me, which had music and lyrics by Porter and a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack.

The song contains one of Porter's most obscure lyrics, one of several rhymes for "daddy" - in which the singer talks about her "fine finnan haddie," a Scottish term for smoked haddock.