On The Fourth Of July Lyrics - James Taylor

Shall I tell it again how we started as friends 

Who would run into one another now and again 

At the yippee cai o or the mesa dupree 

Or a dozen different everyday places to be 

I was loping along living alone 

We were ever so brave on the telephone 

Would you care to come down for fireworks time 

We could each just reach 

We step out of line 

And the smell of the smoke and the lay of the land 

And the feeling of finding one's heart in one's hand 

And the tiny tin voice of the radio band singing 

"love must stand" 

Love forever and ever must stand 

Unbelievable you, impossible me 

The fool who fell out of the family tree 

The fellow that found the philosopher's stone 

Deep underground like a dinosaur bone 

Who fell into you at a quarter to two 

With a tear in your eye for the fourth of july 

For the patriots and the minutemen 

And the things you believe they believed in then 

Such as freedom, and freedom's land 

And the kingdom of God and the rights of man 

With the tiny tin voice of the radio band 

Singing "love must stand" 

Love forever and ever must stand 

And forever must stand 

Oh the smell of the smoke as we lay on the land 

And the feeling of finding my heart in my hand 

With the tiny tin voice of the radio band 

Singing "love must stand" 

Love forever and ever must stand 

All on the fourth of july 

On the fourth of july