Coat of Many Colors (Live at MGG Productions)

Back through the years

I go wondering once again

Back to the seasons of my youth

I recall a box of rags that someone gave us

And how my momma put the rags to use

There were rags of many colours

Some of them were small

I didn't have a coat

It was way down in the fall

Momma sewed the rags together

Sewing every piece with love

She made my coat of many colours

That I was so proud of

As she sewed, she told a story

From the Bible, she had read

About a coat of many colours

Joseph wore and then she said

Perhaps this coat will bring you

Good luck and happiness

I just couldn't wait to wear it

And momma blessed it with a kiss

My coat of many colours

That my momma made for me

Made only from rags

But I wore it so proudly

Although we had no money

I was rich as I could be

In my coat of many colours

My momma made for me

So with patches on my britches

And holes in both my shoes

In my coat of many colours

Well I hurried off to school

Just to find the others laughing

And making fun of me

In my coat of many colours

That momma made for me

And oh, I couldn't understand it

For I felt I was rich

And I told them of the love

My momma sewed in every stitch

And I told them all the story

Momma told me while she sewed

And how my coat of many colours

Was worth more than all their clothes

They didn't understand it

And I tried to make them see

That one is only poor

Only if one choose to be

I know we had no money

But I was rich as I could be

In my coat of many colours

My momma made for me

Oh I know we had no money

But I was rich as I could be

In my coat of many colours

My momma made for me