Chords for Color Him Father

_ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ [F#] _ _
[E] _ There's a man in my [F#] house.
He's so big and strong _
[Em] _ [E] Goes to work each day, [F#] and he stays all day long
He [B] comes home each night [F#] feeling tired and beat _
[B] Sits down at the dinner table, and he [F#] 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 [B] man father
_ [F#] _ Think I'll color him [E] love
_ _ [F#] _ _ [E] Color him father
[B] _ _ [F#] _ Think I'll color [Em] this man love
_ [F#] Yeah _ _ _
[E] He says education is the [F#] thing if you want to compete
[E] Cuz [B] without its son
_ [F#] Life ain't very sweet. _
_ [E] I
Love this [F#] man, and I don't know why
Except [B] I'll need his strength [F#] 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.
[G#m] _ [F#] 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 [E] this man [B] father
_ [F#] _ Think I'm gonna color him [B] love
_ _ _ [E] I've got to color him father
[B] _ _ _ [F#] _ [E] Think I'll color [B] this man
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[E] Our real old man.
[F#] He got killed in the war _ [B] and she knows that she and seven [F#] children couldn't have gotten very far _
[E] She said she thought that she [F#] could never love again _ [B] and then there he stood
with [F#] that big white grin _
He married my mother and he took us in
Now we belong to the man with that big wide grin.
I got [B] to color this man father
_ _ [E] I'm gonna color him
_ [B] Gotta [F#] _ _ [E] color him father.
[B] _ [E] I believe I'll color this man
[B] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ Gonna [Em] color him father
[B] _ _ [F#] _ _ Color [E] him
[B] Yeah
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