| Follow Your Daughter Home | |
| Cover: | Follow Your Daughter Home.png |
| Caption: | Cover of the 1973 German single |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Guess Who |
| Album: | Artificial Paradise |
| B-Side: | Bye Bye Babe |
| Released: | December 1972 (CAN) January 1973 (US) May 1973 (UK) |
| Recorded: | 1972 |
| Genre: | |
| Label: | Nimbus 9 0880 (CAN) RCA Victor 0880 (US) RCA Records 2361 (UK) |
| Producer: | Jack Richardson |
| Prev Title: | Runnin' Back to Saskatoon |
| Prev Year: | 1972 |
| Next Title: | Orly |
| Next Year: | 1973 |
"Follow Your Daughter Home" is a song written by Burton Cummings, Donnie McDougall, Garry Peterson, Bill Wallace, and Kurt Winter and performed by The Guess Who. It reached #20 in Canada[2] and #61 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973.[3] The song was also released in the United Kingdom as a single, but it did not chart.[4] The song was featured on their 1973 album, Artificial Paradise.[5] The song has a calypso-influenced melody.[6]
Lyrically, the song tells listeners to keep tabs on their daughters and to "keep her out of mischief". Controversially, the song asks "is she still a virgin" and -- in addition to advising the listener to follow her home and "ask a lot of questions 'bout the boy she's sleeping with" -- gives advice to "tie her up".
The song was produced by Jack Richardson.[7]