I was born in Alabama, but I never knew my Momma   She gave me away at three months old   Some folks in Mississippi took me in an' kept me   An' treated me just like I was their own      A Holiness preacher man's daughter   And a hard-working sharecropper father      An' my Momma was Apache   My real Daddy? Hell, don't ask me   Momma says she don't remember him   An' I'm sure somewhere in my history   I've got some slave blood in me   An' some folks think that I look Mexican      I never really fit in any place   'Cause there's always a part of me to hate      I'm the rainbow man   That's who I am   I'm a little white an' black an' red and tanned   I've got all these different colors in my skin   I'm the rainbow man      Well, I know you may doubt it   But if you stop an' think about it   There's one common thing that we've all got   People from all countries come here because they're hungry   For what's cookin' in America's meltin' pot      We're all different but the same   Red's the only color in our veins      And I'm the rainbow man   Livin' in a rainbow land   I'm white an' black an' yellow an' brown an' red and tanned   And I'm so proud of all the colors that I am   I'm the rainbow man      All these colors make me American   I'm the rainbow man