There's a man at my house, he's so big and strong
Goes to work each day, stays all day long
Come home each night lookin' tired and beat
Sits down at the dinner table and have a bite to eat

Never a frown, always a smile
When he says to me, 'How my child'
I said that I've been studyin' hard all day in school
Tryin' very hard to understand the golden rule

I think I'll color him father
Gonna color him love
Said, I'm gonna color him father
I got to color the man love, yes I will

He says that education is the thing if you wanna compete
Without it son, life ain't very sweet
I love that man and I don't know why
Except I'll need his strength until the day that I die

My mother loved him and I could tell
By the way she looks at him when he holds my little sister Nell
I heard her sayin' just the other day
That if it hadn't been for him she could not found her way

I'm gonna color him father
Gonna color him love
Said, I'm gonna color him father
I got to color the man love, yes I will

You see

A real old man, he got killed in the war
And she knew her and seven kids could not gone very far
I thought I heard her sayin' she'd never love again
But 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

I'm gonna color him father
Gonna color him love
Said, “I'm gonna color him father, yeah
I've got to color the man love, yes I will”

He's not been so good to me
And we're one happy family
He's that [Incomprehensible]
And he [Incomprehensible] I can trust