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There's a Little Bit of Color 
 
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 ELTSHA WHIPPLE McGUIRE 
 
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 There's a Little Bit of Color 
 
There's a Little Bit of Color 
 
 There's a little bit of color 
 
 Floating softly overhead, 
 Gently gleaming in the sunshine 
 
 Bits of blue and white and red. 
 Only just a starry banner 
 
 In the gleam of light I see, 
 'Tis a little bit of color 
 
 But it means the world to me. 
 
Now I see it in a vision 
 
 Borne by living arms of steel 
 On the awful field of battle 
 
 Where before it foemen reel. 
 Taut its lines and torn its fabric 
 
 'Mid the storm of shot and shell, 
 Tis the emblem now of justice 
 
 And of tyranny the knell. 
 
If the bearer of the banner 
 
 On the field shall chance to fall, 
 There are millions more of freemen 
 
 That shall grasp it at his call, 
 And can have no greater honor 
 
 Than to bear it firm and high, 
 For the love they bear their country 
 
 And they do not fear to die. 
 
Then I'll raise the bit of color 
 
 As the dearest thing of all, 
 Emblem of the light of freemen 
 
 Who shall gather at its call. 
 Floating proudly o'er our country 
 
 Idolized from sea to sea 
 *Tis a little bit of color 
 
 But it means the world to me. 
 
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