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July 4th 2006

The forth of July

by Al Grove

The sun came up, it's the forth of July,

there are going to be fireworks in the sky

If you look up in the sky you'll see

beautiful explosions for you and me

The fireworks represent who we are

of battles we won both near and far

On July the forth, in seventeen seventy six

we picked up guns and we picked up sticks

We wrote a paper that said we were free

and we posted copies on every tree,

In Boston and Philly and New York City

England didn't listen, that was a pity.

So many died on both sides of the fight

Some battle fields were a ghastly sight

There were battles in Trenton and on Bunker Hill

In Princeton and Concord their troops we'd kill

The war went on for a long, long, time

before we could call the country "mine."

So the fireworks represent the cannon fire

that was caused by all the build up ire

Because the way we were ruled by the English King

our constitution is a living thing

One that belongs to you and I

one we should cherish till the day we die.