Color Him Father Chords by The Winstons

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