Independence Day
Martina McBride

Open Chords G=A    C=D    Em=F#m    Em7=F#m7

Capo 2nd Fret

 [Intro]    G    C    G    C


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 Well she seemed all right by dawn's early light, though she looked a little worried and weak
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She tried to pretend he wasn't drinking again; But Daddy'd left the proof on her cheek____


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I was only eight years old that summer, and I always seemed to be in the way
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So I took myself down to the fair in town, 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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But Mama was proud and she stood her ground, She knew she was on the losing end ___


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Some folks whispered, some folks talked, But everybody looked the other way
    Em                           C      G      D               Gx2 [Stop]
And when time ran out, there was no one about, On Independence Day ______


[Chorus]
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Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, __Let the whole world know that today is a day of __reckoning
                             Em7x2                              Cx2              G                      D  [stop]
Let the weak be strong, __let the right be wrong, Roll that stone away, 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 they took down some names, and sent me to the county home ___


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Now I ain't saying it's right or it's wrong, but maybe it's the only way
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Talk about your revolution, ____ its Independence Day ______


[Chorus]
             Dx2                     Emx2                   C              G              Dx2
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, __Let the whole world know that today is a day of __reckoning
                 Em7x2                            Cx2              G                   D  [stop]
Let the weak be strong, __let the right be wrong, Roll that stone away, let the guilty pay _____
                  G      C                   G       C                   G    C    G
It's Independence Day ______ roll that stone away  ____It's Independence Day _________