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Coat Of Many Colours chords by Dolly Parton

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COAT OF MANY COLOURS by Dolly Parton
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Back through the years I go wondering once again

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Back to the seasons of my/ youth

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I / recall a box of rags that someone gave us

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And how my mamma put those rags to/ use

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There were/ rags of many colours, and every piece was small

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And I didn't have a coat and it was/ way down in the fall

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Mamma/ sewed the rags together, sewing/ every piece with love

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She made my/ coat of many colours,that/ I was so proud of

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As she sewed she told the story from the Bible she had read

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About a coat of many colours Joseph/ wore and then she said

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Per/haps this coat will bring you ,much/ love and happiness

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And I just/ couldn't wait to wear it

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And mamma/ blessed it with a kiss

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My coat of many colours that/ mamma made for me

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Made only rags,but I/ wore it so proud/ly

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Al/though we had no money.oh I/ was rich as I could be

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In my/ coat of many colours,my/ mamma made for me
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So with patches on my breeches and holes in both my shoes

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In my coat of many colours,I/ hurried off to school

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Just to/ find the others laughing and/ makin' fun of me

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In my/ coat of many colours,my/ mamma made for/ me


Oh,I couldn't understand it,for I felt I was rich
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And I told them of the love my mamma/ sewed in ever stitch

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And I/ told them all the story mamma/ told me while she sewed

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And how my/ coat of many colours

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Was worth/ more than all of their clothes

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They/ didn't understand it and I/ tried to make them see

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That/ one is only poor only/ if they choose to be

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Now I/ know we have no money,but I'm was/ rich as I could be

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In my/ coat of many colours, my/ mamma made for me

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Yeah just for me.....

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