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Good Intent

Album: The Essential Rosanne Cash Durasi: 3:45

I sailed in on the Good Intent

With all intentions clear

A man without a mystery

A vision brought me here

The ocean gave me room to roam

But the shore in calling out

So I will marry, build a home

And see what that's about

Children came by dozens then

Drifting south like rain

I work the soil, I use the gun

The waves have turned to grain

I tried to love this Arkansas

With black and bleeding hands

I will not survive this life

But I'll become a man

My brother sold my mother's house

I never shed a tear

I could watch the world in smoke

There's nothing for me here

I've seen behind the darkened veil

And it's all I want to know

So I'll sail off on the Good Intent

To my true happy home

Yes I'll sail off on the Good Intent

Never more to roam