when i first met his mama she was just 19 couldn t say for certain who the father was but 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 well he can change the world y all may have to look at joseph a couple of 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 father s 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 an i m gonna raise him up i ll provide for you walk beside of you i am strong enough i ve seen from you what a son can do with a father s love one man changed the world an he can change your world but you gotta raise him up raise him up