Clarity
Ellis Paul

Do you remember Rose McGuire

Her hair was red as fire

A child of the Carolinas

She was a blue eyed streak of wild

But she fell for the smile of a soldier boy

Who was running from the stars and stripes

He laid her down in a clover field

And took her breath with a hurricane's might

She lay tremblin' watching the stars

Criss cross the night


(chorus)

Clarity

Clarity

Lord, I need your

Charity

Won't you sing me

A sweet old song

Your voice won't lead me wrong

When you sing of truth

The truth will lift the haze

And the song will see me through

To better days


When I was born she was sixteen

And every steeple

In the three church town

Was ringing with shame

People whispered like rain

Of the baby but no wedding gown



So climb aboard, the highway leads

To somewhere nobody knows your name

You plant each step like it was a seed

And make peace with what you cannot change

And she sang me to sleep while the Greyhound

Cut the rain

(chorus)


Do you remember

20 years ago in September

In Carolina

Does that remind you?

Carolina

Carolina


My name is Annie McGuire

I've come here looking for my father

He's a soldier faded in a photograph

He's just a kid in a uniform

Now I haven't come here to scare you off

With a thousand questions

I need answered

I only know we share the same eyes

And that the truth can be a mighty fine dancer

My mother's gone, and a little clarity

Is all I'm after

(chorus)


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