Coat of Colours (feat. Richard Bailey)

I've got a coat of many colours, plain and simply made

I've got the buttons from my sister, golden threads and purest jade,

I've got the collar from my father, torn from remnants of his youth

And the pockets from my mother, full of prayer and simple truth.

An the time it took to make this precious coat is sown within,

It's big enough for two my love so won't you come on in

In my coat of many colours, I've seen the sunshine turn to rain,

An returning to some place I know will never be the same.

When adversity she finds me and know she surely will,

I will carry my life's burdens to the top of that green hill

And those memories will take me on a journey through the past

And my heart will hold the fondest and the love that always lasts

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This coat is my family,

This coat for the whole world to see

This coat is my destiny

This coat of many colours is my family

This coat for the whole world to see

This coat is my destiny

This coat of many colours

Coat of many colours.

I know that someday I will walk again on pure silver sand

I will turn and see your footsteps next to mine and feel your hand

They'll be figures standing up ahead stark against the sun

And music playing in my head to the pounding of a drum

I will pull my collar higher and stride into the quickening wind

Across the Plaines towards utopia into your arms again,

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