4th of July

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 gunpowder 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
 I 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 have 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 the pathos and pain
 Another chapter in a book where the chapters are endless
 And they're always the same
 A verse, and a verse, and refrain
 Oh, baby, I wonder if when you are older
 Someday
 You'll wake up
 And say, 'My God, I should have 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
 And she's got the river down which I sold her...'