"My Heart Belongs to Daddy" is a song written by Cole Porter, for the 1938 musical Leave It to Me! which premiered on Nov 9, 1938. It was originally performed by Mary Martin who played Dolly Winslow, the young "protégée" of a rich newspaper publisher.
In the original context, Dolly is stranded at a Siberian railway station, wearing only a fur coat, and performs a striptease while singing the song. Surrounded by eager Siberian men, she says that since she has met "daddy", she will flirt with other men, but wont "follow through". "Daddy" is her newspaperman sugar daddy, introduced with the words, "I've come to care, for such a sweet millionaire".
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