Today's the Fourth of July

Another June has gone by

And when they light up our town I just think

What a waste of gun powder and sky



I'm certain I am alone

In harboring thoughts of our home

It's one of my faults that I can't quell my past

I ought to have gotten it gone

Ought to have gotten it...



Oh baby, I wonder if when you are older

Someday

You'll wake up and say "My God I should've told her

What would it take

But now here I am and the world's gotten colder

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



So that's today's memory lane

With all of the pathos and pain

Another chapter in a book

Where the chapters are endless and they're always the same

A verse, then a verse and refrain



Oh baby, I wonder if when you are older

Someday

You'll wake up and say "My God I should've told her

What would it take

But now here I am and the world's gotten colder

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

She's got the river down which I sold her"