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 don 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.

(Gretchen Peters.)