Grateful For Music Challenge Day 24: Coat of Many Colors

Song: Coat of Many Colors

Artist: Dolly Parton

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

 

I love this holiday and I am feeling so grateful for all of the many, many blessings I have! Family, my dog, children, the holidays, my home, food, freedom, tender mercies, my faith and religion, music....the list could go on for days! I hope everyone has had as beautiful and memorable of a holiday as I have. I feel so blessed.

 

This song is the perfect song for today, a day to remember what we have to be thankful for, even if it's not a lot. I have a beautiful, illustrated book with the words to this song. It has always held a special place in my heart. It was also my grandma's favorite song :) I'd actually never heard the song itself before but I've listened to it a couple of times this year. It is such a sweet story. It makes me cry. We should be grateful for our blessings. We should be grateful for what we do have and not try to compare ourselves or our material things to others. All we need is love. And I am grateful that I have a lot of love in my life and always have! Happy Thanksgiving! There's so much to be thankful for!!

 

 

Back through the years

I go wanderin' 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 colors

Every piece was small

And I didn't have a coat

And it was way down in the fall

Momma sewed the rags together

Sewin' every piece with love

She made my coat of many colors

That I was so proud of

As she sewed, she told a story

From the bible, she had read

About a coat of many colors

Joseph wore and then she said

I hope this coat will bring you

Good luck and happiness

And I just couldn't wait to wear it
And momma blessed it with a kiss

My coat of many colors
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 colors
My momma made for me

So with patches on my britches

And holes in both my shoes

In my coat of many colors

I hurried off to school

Just to find the others laughing

And making fun of me

And my coat of many colors

My 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 'em all the story

Momma told me while she sewed

And how my coat of many colors
Was worth more than all their clothes

But they didn't understand it

And I tried to make them see

That one is only poor
Only if they choose to be

Now I know we had no money
But I was rich as I could be
In my coat of many colors
My momma made for me
Made just for me