Rainbow Man-Jeff Bates

[ti:Rainbow Man] [ar:Jeff Bates] [al:Rainbow Man] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rainbow Man - Jeff Bates [00:15.27]I was born in Alabama but I never knew my Momma [00:21.52]She gave me away at three months old [00:27.46]Some folks in Mississippi took me in an' kept me [00:33.58]An' treated me just like I was their own [00:39.58]A Holiness preacher man's daughter [00:45.39]And a hard-working sharecropper father [00:51.33]An' my Momma was Apache my real Daddy Hell don't ask me [00:57.90]Momma says she don't remember him [01:03.02]An' I'm sure somewhere in my history I've got some slave blood in me [01:09.75]An' some folks think I look Mexican [01:16.27]I never really fit in any place [01:21.58]'Cause there's always a part of me to hate [01:27.65]I'm the rainbow man [01:33.84]That's who I am [01:40.28]I'm a little white an' black an' red and tanned [01:45.27]I've got all these different colors in my skin [01:51.71]I'm the rainbow man [01:56.72] [02:04.28]Well I know you may doubt it but if you stop an' think about it [02:09.90]There's one common thing that we've all got [02:14.78] [02:16.27]People from all countries come here because they're hungry [02:21.66]For what's cookin' in America's meltin' pot [02:28.23]We're all different but the same [02:34.36]Red's the only color in our veins [02:40.19]And I'm the rainbow man [02:45.74]Livin' in a rainbow land [02:49.43] [02:51.87]I'm white an' black an' yellow an' brown an' red and tanned [02:57.75]And I'm so proud of all the colors that I am: [03:04.31]I'm the rainbow man [03:09.12] [03:09.87]All these colors make me American [03:16.37]I'm the rainbow man