| There’s a man at my house he’s so big and strong
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| He goes to work each day, stays all day long
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| He comes home each night looking tired and beat
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| He sits down at the dinner table and has a bite to eat
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| Never a frown always a smile
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| When he says to me how’s my child
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| I’ve been studying hard all day in school
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| Tryin' to understand the golden rule
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| Think I’ll color this man father
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| I think I’ll color him love
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| Said I’m gonna color him father
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| I think I’ll color the man love, yes I will
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| He says education is the thing if you wanna compete
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| Because without it son, life ain’t very sweet
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| I love this man I don’t know why
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| Jexcept I’ll need his strength till the day that I die
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| My mother loves him and I can tell
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| By the way she looks at him when he holds my little sister nell
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| I heard her say just the other day
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| That if it hadn’t been for him she wouldn’t have found her way
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| My real old man he got killed in the war
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| And she knows she and seven kids couldn’t of got very far
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| She said she thought that she could never love again
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| And then there he stood with that big wide grin
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| He married my mother and he took us in And now we belong to the nman with that big wide grin
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| Think I’ll color this man father
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| I think I’ll color him love
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| Said I’m gonna color him father
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| I think I’ll color the man love, yes I will |