Independence Day
Martina McBride
   

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|   Well, she | seemed alright by dawn's | early light, though she looked |
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| a little worried and weak. |    She tried to pretend he wasn't | drinkin' ag a ai n  but |
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| daddy left the proof on her cheek. |      | 'nI was only eight years old |
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| that summer, and I | always seemed to be in the way. |     So I | took myself down to the fair |
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| in the t ow w wn n  on |  Independence Day. |     |      |      |

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|   Well word | gets around in a small, | small town - they said | he was a dangerous man. |
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|    My mama was proud and she stood | her ground but she knew | she was on the losin' end. |
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|     Some | folks whispered some | folks talked but eve | rybody looked the other way.|
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|      And when | time ran out there was no | one ab o ut t  on | Independence Day. |     |

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| Let Freedom ring, |     | let the white dove  si | ng.   |     Let the whole |
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| world know that today |    is a day of rec | koning. | Let the weak be  str |  o n  g, |
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| let the right b  e wro | ng.  | Roll the stone a way, | let the guilty pay, |
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| it's Independence | Day.  |      |      |

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|   Well | she lit up the sky that | Fourth of July, by the | time that the firemen come. |
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|    They just | put out the flames and took down | some na m es and send | me to the county home. |
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|     Now | I ain't say'n' it's right | or it's wrong but may | be it's the on l ly way. |      |
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| Talk about your revo lu | tion-    it's | Independence Day. |     |

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| Let Freedom ring, |     | let the white dove  si | ng.   |     Let the whole |
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| world know that today |    is a day of rec | koning. | Let the weak be  str |  o n  g, |
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| let the right b  e wro | ng.  | Roll the stone a way, | let the guilty pay, |
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| it's Independence | Day.  |      |      |
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| Roll the stone a w ay | y    | It's Independence Da | y. |

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