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.)