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