I Wanna Fight Your Father

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"I Wanna Fight Your Father"
IWFYF Single Cover.PNG
Single by The Rubberbandits
from the album Serious About Men
ReleasedFebruary 25, 2011
Genre Pop
Length3:29
Label Lovely men
Songwriter(s)
  • Dave Chambers * Bob McGlynn
The Rubberbandits singles chronology
"Horse Outside"
(2010)
"I Wanna Fight Your Father"
(2011)
"Spastic Hawk"
(2011)

"I Wanna Fight Your Father" is a song by Irish comedy duo The Rubberbandits, taken as their second single. It was released on 25 February 2011. [1]

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Video

A video for the song was released on 24 February 2011, which was later removed [2] (It was re-uploaded on November 30, 2011, except the song had slightly altered, they call this the album version). [3] The duo also released a video for the Irish language version of the song, "Ba Mhaith Liom Bruíon le d'Athair", which, as of November 2015, has over a million views. [4] The Irish-language version samples the riff from the Minnie Riperton song "Inside My Love".

Chart positions

Chart (2011)Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA) [5] 6

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