Guardian Angel - Tim O'Brien

I guess there’s no time when I can’t recall

That picture hanging up there on the wall

Of a little girl walking by a snake in the grass

And her guardian angel is guiding her past

I lost a big sister when the picture was new

Nineteen fifty-six just before I turned two

I took part of my memory, added stories and things

I made her my angel, she has her own wings

I made her my angel, she has her own wings

She would have held my hand, she would have called my name

Too young to remember I miss her the same

My guardian angel, I miss her the same

Don’t know much about her, there’s not much to know

Just six years of living then she had to go

My parents they grieved, somehow they moved on

And I grew up knowing my sister was gone

I found an old letter that my mom wrote that year

And each time I read it I shed a new tear

It helps me to feel some of what my parents felt then

I think of my own kids and feel it again

I think of my own kids and feel it again

I would have held her hand, I know I called her name

My guardian angel I miss her the same

She would have held my hand, she would have called my name

Too young to remember her, miss her the same

My guardian angel, I miss her the same

My guardian angel, I miss her the same

I guess there’s no time when I can’t recall

The picture a hanging up there on the wall