{Actually in A; capo 2.} 
 
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{intro} 
 

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Well she seemed all right by dawn's early light 
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Though she looked a little worried and weak 
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She tried to pretend he wasn't drinking again 
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But Daddy'd left the proof on her cheek 
 

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I was only eight years old that summer 
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And I always seemed to be in the way 
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So I took myself down to the fair in town 
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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 
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On Independence Day 
 

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Let freedom ring,     let the white dove sing 
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Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning 
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Let the weak be strong,        let the right be wrong 
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  Roll that stone away, let the guilty pay 
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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 

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 

Roll that stone away, let the guilty pay 
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It's Independence Day,       roll that stone away 
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  It's Independence Day