Jeff Bates Rainbow Man Lyrics

Rainbow Man Lyrics

I was born in Alabama, but I never knew my Momma.
She gave me away at three
months old.
Some folks in Mississippi took me in an' kept me,
An' treated
me just like I was their own.
A Holiness preacher man's daughter,
And a
hard-working sharecropper father.

An' my Momma was Apache, my real
Daddy? Hell, don't ask me.
Momma says she don't remember him.
An' I'm
sure somewhere in my history, I've got some slave blood in me.
An' some
folks think I look Mexican.
I never really fit in any place,
'Cause
there's always a part of me to hate.

I'm the rainbow man.
That's who
I am.
I'm a little white an' black an' red and tanned.
I've got all these
different colors in my skin.
I'm the rainbow man.

Well, I know you may
doubt it, but if you stop an' think about it,
There's one common thing that
we've all got.
People from all countries come here because they're
hungry,
For what's cookin' in America's meltin' pot.
We're all different
but the same.
Red's the only color in our veins.

And I'm the rainbow
man.
Livin' in a rainbow land.
I'm white an' black an' yellow an' brown
an' red and tanned.
And I'm so proud of all the colors that I am:
I'm the
rainbow man.

All these colors make me American,
I'm the rainbow man.