Patches- Clarence Carter 24 october 2013 | Page 2

Vitória D’angelo Araujo Mac3 Clarence Carter is an American musician and songwriter.His most successful records include “Patches”, the best ballad wrote by Carters. The song “Patches” has as main theme his harrowing family life in Alabama, and demonstrate with overwhelming clarity how he try to rescue dignity from disaster trying to pull his family through. In the song, when his father died, he began working in the fields as only way to support his family because he was the oldest, and as a father's request, he didn’t let go of the school. In the song, also have moments that he was about to give up on everything and run away, but the voice of his father's deathbed begging for him to take care of the family made him stay. “Patches” is an amazing song, and a song that everyone should listen at least once in a lifetime.