The Oxford Advanced Dictionary has British and American pronunciations:
http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionarie...glish/rather_1
http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionarie...glish/father_1
The differences for "rather" actually are starker than for "father." But your rhyme works with those pronunciations. (The blue icon is British, the red is American.)
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