color him father

Lyrics

there's a man at my house he's so big and strong, he goes to work each day, stays all day long, he comes home each night looking tired and beat, he sits down at the dinner table and has a bite to eat, never a frown always a smile, when he says to me how's my child, i've been studying hard all day in school, tryin' to understand the golden rule, think i'll color this man father, i think i'll color him love, said i'm gonna color him father, i think i'll color the man love, yes i will, he says education is the thing if you wanna compete, because without it son, life ain't very sweet, i love this man i don't know why, except i'll need his strength till 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 nell, i heard her say just the other day, that if it hadn't been for him she wouldn't have found her way, my real old man he got killed in the war, and she knows she and seven kids couldn't of got very far, she said she thought that 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 that big wide grin, think i'll color this man father, i think i'll color him love, said i'm gonna color him father