Jacob & Sons / Joseph's Coat chords by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim rice, Donny Osmond
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Verse 1
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Way,
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way back many centuries ago
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Not long after the Bible began
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Jacob lived in the land of Canaan,
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a fine example of a family man.
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Jacob!
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Jacob and sons
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depended on farming
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to earn their keep.
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Jacob!
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Jacob and sons
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spent all of their days
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in the fields with sheep.
Jacob was the founder of a
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whole new nation,
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thanks to the number of children he had.
He was also known as Israel,
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but most of the time
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His sons and his wife
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used to call him Dad
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Jacob, Jacob and Sons
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They're the men of the soil,
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of the sheep and the crook
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Jacob, Jacob and Sons
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A remarkable family in any one book
We are the eldest of the
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children of Israel
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Messimian and Levi, the next in line
Master Lee and Hippocampus
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and Asher and Vern
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Nebula and Gag took the total to nine
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Jacob, Jacob and Sons
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Benjamin, Judah,
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all which we know being one
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Jacob, Jacob and Sons
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Joseph, Jacob's favorite son
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Jacob, Jacob and Sons
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Jacob, Jacob and Sons
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Jacob, Jacob and Doug!
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Jacob, Jacob,
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Jacob and Doug!
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Joseph's mother,
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she was quite my fa vorite wife.
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I never really loved another all my life.
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But Joseph was my joy because
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And he reminded me of her
Through young Joseph
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Jacob lived his youth again
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Loved him, praised him,
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gave him all he could
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But then it made the rest feel second best
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And even if they were
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Being told we're also rants
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Does not make us Joseph fans
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But where they have really
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missed the boat is
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We're great guys but no one
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seems to notice
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Joseph's charm and winning smiles
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Felt to slay them in the aisles
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And their father couldn't see the danger
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He could not imagine any danger
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He just saw in Joseph
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all his dreams come true
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Jacob wanted to show the world
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he loved his son
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To make it clear that Joseph
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was the special one
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So Jacob bought his son a coat,
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a multi -coloured coat to wear
Joseph's coat was el
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egant and a god's one
The tasteful style
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was the ultimately good design
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This is why it was he I, a king,
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would stomp and stare
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And when Joseph tried it on,
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he knew his sheepskin days were gone
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Such a dazzling coat of many colours,
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How he loved his coat of many colours,
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In a class above the rest,
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It even went well with his vest.
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Such a stunning coat of many colours,
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How he loved his coat of many colours,
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It was red, and yellow, and green,
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and brown, and blue.
JOSEPH'S BROTHERS
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weren't to please with what they saw
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He had never liked them
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all that much before
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But now his coat has become a goat
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We feel life is unfair
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And when Joseph raised the scene
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His brothers turned the shade of green
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His astounding clothing
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kicked the biscuit
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Quite the smoothest person in the district
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I look handsome, I look smart,
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I am a walking work of art.
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Such a dazzling coat of many colors,
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how I love my coat of many colors.
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It was red, and yellow, and green, and brown, and scarlet, and black,
and ochre, and peach, and ruby, and olive, and violet, and violet.
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I look handsome, I look smart.
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I am a walking work of art.
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Such a dazzling coat of many colors.
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How I love my coat of many colors.
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It was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach
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and ruby and olive and violet and boy and violet and gold and chocolate and mold
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And green, and crimson, and silver, and rose, and azure, and leather,
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and rusted, and grey, and purple, and white, and pink, and orange, and blue!
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