On The Fourth Of July Lyrics

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