Raise Him Up

Album: Rise and Shine (2002)
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  • When I first met his momma
    She was just nineteen
    Couldn't say for certain who the father was
    I have known him since he was a pup
    And I'm gonna raise him up
    If you never knew your daddy
    Like I never knew mine
    It feels like everybody knows you're fatherless
    This boy may not be blood of my blood
    But I'm gonna raise him up
    I'll provide for him
    Walk beside of him
    I am strong enough
    Cause it's time he knew
    What a son can do
    With a father's love
    He can change the world
    Ya'll may have to look at Joseph
    A couple thousand years ago
    When he held a newborn baby he named Jesus
    He said he may not be blood of my blood
    Still I'm gonna raise him up
    I'll provide for him
    Walk beside of him
    I am strong enough
    I will show him too
    What a son can do
    With a fathers love
    And he will change the world
    Thirty three years later
    When the son was in his grave
    Broken and abandoned by a world he came to save
    His real dad said he's mine
    Blood of my blood
    And I'm gonna raise him up
    I'll provide for you
    Walk beside of you
    I am strong enough
    I have seen from you
    What a son can do
    With a fathers love
    One man changed the world
    And he can change your world
    But you gotta raise him up
    Raise him up Writer/s: MELVERN RIVERS II RUTHERFORD, ROBERT WILSON ROYER
    Publisher: ROBROY WEST MUSIC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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