James Taylor On The 4th Of July Lyrics

On The 4th Of July Lyrics

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 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 and forever must stand.



All on the Fourth of July,
on the Fourth of July.