Independence Day Lyrics - Gretchen Peters

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 drinkin' again 

But daddy'd 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 down 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 mama was proud and she stood her ground 

But she knew she was on the losin' end. 

Some folks whispered and some folks talked 

But everybody looked the other way 

And when time ran out there was no one about 

On Independence Day. 

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 fourth of July 

By the time that the firemen come 

They just put out the flames 

And took down some names 

And send me to the county home. 

Now I ain't sayin' it's right or it's wrong 

But maybe it's the only way. 

Talk about your revolution 

It's Independence Day. 

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. 

Roll the stone away 

It's Independence Day.