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Rainbow Man--Jeff Bates

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