Coat of Many Colors

Album: Back With Jack

Lyrics

v1)  There is a good book I like to read
Filled with many stories, yes indeed
There’s one about Joseph and how he played
In a coat of many colors his father made



CH:  We are all a coat of many colors
Continents and nations, families and friends
Woven all together to love each other
Searching for the gold at the rainbow’s end



v2)  Joseph’s brothers were jealous, you see
They sold him down to Egypt to slavery
The coat of many colors they dipped in blood
They lied and tried to hide the deed they’d done



v3)  But Joseph kept faith, in his eye was a gleam
He understood the Pharaoh’s mysterious dream
He was so wise that the Pharaoh’s hand
Soon made him a ruler over all the land



v4)  In famine time Joseph’s brothers came
To find a little food was their only aim
Joseph could let them either die or live
What he chose was to love and to forgive



CHORUS



v5)  Many, many years have passed away
Still Joseph and his brothers are alive today
The family coat is still dipped in blood
The locusts of hate have devoured our food



v6)  Though each of us has but a single voice
The time has arrived for a dreadful choice
We can search all the world and beyond the sky
But it’s written in our hearts: either love or die



v7)  And there is some good news I tell you now
There once lived a man who showed us how
By the life he lived, by the words he said
By a love so strong it rose from the dead, he said...



CHORUS (x2)



(repeat first verse)

Credit

by Jack Pearson © 1997 Jack Pearson, OtterTunity Inc. - BMI