We Buy a Hammer for Daddy is the debut studio album by English experimental rock band Lemon Kittens.

It was released in 1980, through record label United Diaries.

The phrase "We buy a hammer for Daddy" originates from the caption to an illustration in the 1958 Ladybird book Shopping with Mother.

[1] All tracks composed by the Lemon Kittens AllMusic's review was highly favourable, writing, "The tracks [...] are all highly original and have little precedent either in or beyond the annals of British pop/rock [...] We Buy a Hammer for Daddy belongs with Alternative TV's Vibing Up the Senile Man and the first This Heat LP as one of the milestones of experimental rock music.

"[3] Lemon Kittens Technical