Intro  Em F#m G 2x

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Today's the 4th of July

Another June has gone by
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And when they light up our town I just think
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What a waste of gunpowder and sky


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I'm certain I am alone

In harbouring thoughts of our home
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It's one of my faults that I can't quell my past
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I ought to have gotten it gone
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I ought to have gotten it


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


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So that's today's memory lane

With all the pathos and pain
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Another chapter in a book where the chapters are endless
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And they're always the same

A verse and a verse and refrain

[chorus]


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