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 Intro 2x

Today's the 4th of July

Another June has gone by

And when they light up our town I just think

 What a waste of gunpowder and sky

I'm certain I am alone

In harbouring thoughts of our home

It's one of my faults that I can't quell my past

 I ought to have gotten it gone

 I ought to have gotten it

Ooh baby I wonder if when you are older some day

you'll wake up and say "My God I should have told her what would it take?

But now here I am and the world's gotten colder

 And she's got the river down which I sold her

So that's today's memory lane

With all the pathos and pain

Another chapter in a book where the chapters are endless

And they're always the same

A verse and a verse and refrain

Chorus

 And she's got the river down which I sold her