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Pastimes : Calling all SI Poets
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To: AugustWest who wrote (1604)7/3/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: Susan Saline  Read Replies (2) of 2095
 
one for the holiday

Mcbride Martina
The Way That I Am

Independence Day

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 left the proof on her cheek.

and 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 momma 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
on Independence Day.

Chorus:

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 the stone away,
let the guilty pay
it's independence day.

Well she lit up the sky that 4th of July
by the time that the firemen had come.
they just put out the flames
and took down some names
and sent me to the county home.

Now I ain't saying that it's right or it's wrong
but maybe it's the only way
Talk about your revolution,
It's independence Day

Repeat Chorus

Roll the stone away, It's Independence day.
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