Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 Well she seemed all right by dawn's early light

 Though she looked a little worried and weak

 She tried to pretend he wasn't drinking again

 But Daddy'd left the proof on her cheek

I was only eight years old that summer

 And I always seemed to be in the way

 So I took myself down to the fair in town

On Independence Day

 Well, word gets around in a small, small town

 They said he was a dangerous man

 But Mama was proud and she stood her ground

 She knew she was on the losing end

Some folks whispered, some folks talked

 But everybody looked the other way

 And when time ran out, there was no one about

....stop

On Independence Day

 Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing

 Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning

 Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong

  [once, let ring out]

Roll that stone away, let the guilty pay

 It's Independence Day

 Well, she lit up the sky that Fourth of July

 By the time that the firemen come

 They just put out the flames and they took down some names

 And sent me to the county home

 Now I ain't saying it's right or it's wrong

 But maybe it's the only way

Talk about your revolution

....stop

It's Independence Day

 Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing

 Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning

 Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong

  [once, let ring out]

Roll that stone away, let the guilty pay

 It's Independence Day, roll that stone away

It's Independence Day

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