Color Him Father Songtext
von Keb’ Mo’

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


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

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