Honoring Stepdad

Stepdad’s Blast from the Past, “Color Him Father”

The song “Color Him Father” is one of those rare positive message songs of the era that dominated the classic soul and pop airwaves back in 1969.  The song reached # 2 on the R&B charts and #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same year achieving gold record status.  The song was one of the best known songs by The Winstons a funk and soul group. 

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The song’s composer, Richard Spencer, won a Grammy for the Best R&B song in 1970.  “Color Him Father” is a honest sentimental song in which a schoolboy expresses his love for his stepfather, a hardworking and generous man who married the widowed mother of seven children and embraced them as his own after her first husband was “killed in the war.”
 
I hope you find inspiration in the lyrics.  Enjoy…
 
There’s a man at my house he’s so big and strong
He goes to work each day, stays all day long
He comes home each night looking tired and beat
He sits down at the dinner table and has a bite to eat
 
Never a frown always a smile
When he says to me how’s my child
I’ve been studying hard all day in school
Tryin’ to understand the golden rule

Think I’ll color this man father
I think I’ll color him love
Said I’m gonna color him father
I think I’ll color the man love, yes I will

He says education is the thing if you wanna compete
Because without it son, life ain’t very sweet
I love this man I don’t know why
Except I’ll need his strength till the day that I die

My mother loves him and I can tell
By the way she looks at him when he holds my little sister Nell
I heard her say just the other day
That if it hadn’t been for him she wouldn’t have found her way

My real old man he got killed in the war
And she knows she and seven kids couldn’t of got very far
She said she thought that she could never love again
And 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

Think I’ll color this man father
I think I’ll color him love
Said I’m gonna color him father

Find more poems honoring stepdads in the archive Honoring Stepdad.
 
 
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      Gerardo

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