Chords for Color Him Father

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_ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ Now the man at my [Fm] house, he's so big and strong.
_ He goes [Cm] to work each day and [Bbm] stays all [Db] day long.
_ [Ab] He comes home each night [Fm] looking tired and beat.
[Ab] He sits down at the dinner table [Bbm] and has a bite to eat.
_ [Cm] _ Never a frown, [Bbm]
always a smile [Cm] when he says to me, [Bbm] how's my child?
[Cm] I said that I've been studying hard [Bbm] all day at school.
_ [Cm] Trying very hard to [Db] understand the golden rule.
I think [Ab] I'll color this man [Fm] father.
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I think I'll color [Ab] him love.
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Said I'm gonna color [Ab] him father.
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I think I'll color the [Ab] man love.
Yes I [Fm] will.
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_ [Eb] _ [Ab] He says education is a thing if [Fm] you want to compete.
_ [Eb] Because without his son, life [Fm] ain't very [Eb] sweet.
_ [Ab] I love [F] this man and I don't know why.
Except I'll need his strength until [Bbm] the day that I die.
_ [Cm] My mother loves him [Bbm] and I can tell.
[Cm] By the way she looks at him when he [Fm] holds my little sister's nail.
_ [Cm] I heard her say just [Bbm] the other day.
That [Cm] if it hadn't been for him, she [Db] couldn't have found her way.
I think [Ab] I'll color him father.
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I'm [Db] gonna color [Eb] him love.
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I've [Eb] got to color [Ab] him father.
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I [Db] think I'll color [Ab] this man love.
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_ [F] _ _ [A] Our real old man, he [Gbm] got killed in the war.
[A] And she knows [Gbm] she and seven kids [Bm] couldn't have gotten very far.
_ [A] She says she thought that she could [Gbm] never love again.
[A] And then there he stood with [Bm] that big white grin.
_ [Dbm] He married my mother [Bm] and he took us in.
_ [Dbm] And now we belong to the man with that big white [E] grin.
I've got [A] to color this man father.
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I'm gonna color [E] him love. _ _
I've got to color him father.
_ [Db] I believe I'll color [Gb] this man love.
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He's just been [A] so good to me.
_ [D] I know I've got to color [Gb] him love.
_ _ [B] I'm gonna [A] color him [Gbm] father.
_ _ [Bm] I've got to color [Gb] this man love.
_ _ [Bm] He's just been [A] so kind.
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