Color Him Father

There's a man in my house
 He's so big and strong
 He goes to work each day
 And he stays all day long
 He comes home each night
 Feeling tired and beat
 He sits down at the dinner table
 And he has a bite to eat
 Never a frown always a smile
 When he says to me how's my child
 I say I've been studying hard
 All day in school
 Trying very hard to understand
 The golden rule
 I think I'll color this man father
 Think I'll color him love
 Color him father
 Think I'll color this man love
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 He says education is the thing
 If you want to complete
 Because without it son
 Life ain't very sweet
 I love this man and I don't know why
 Except I'll need his strength
 Until the day that I die
 My mother loves him and I can tell
 By the way she looks at him
 When he holds my little sister Rochelle
 I heard her say, just the other day
 That if it hadn't been for him
 She couldn't have found her way
 I think I'll color this man father
 Think I'm going to color him love
 I've got to color him father
 I think I'll color this man love
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 Our real old man, he got killed in the war
 And she knows that she and seven children
 Couldn't have gotten very far
 She said she thought she could never love again
 And then there he stood, with that big, wide grin
 He married my mother and he took us in
 And now we belong to the man with the big, wide grin
 I've got to color this man father
 I'm going to color him love
 Gotta color him father
 I believe I'll color this man love
 Gonna color him father
 Gonna color him love