CAPO: 2 

Intro: F  Bb  F  Bb  F  Bb  F 

                             Bb             
Well she seemed all right by dawn's early light 
           F                           Bb      
Though she looked a little worried and weak 
    F                          Bb         F 
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinking again 
    C                                   
But Daddy'd left the proof on her cheek 


F                      Bb         
I was only eight years old that summer 
      F                          Bb    
And I always seemed to be in the way 
     Dm                      Bb       F     C 
So I took myself down to the fair in town 
                F    Bb  F  Bb    
On Independence Day 


      F                     Bb             
Well, word gets around in a small, small town 
     F                       Bb     
They said he was a dangerous man 
    F                      Bb         F 
But Mama was proud and she stood her ground 
    C                               
She knew she was on the losing end 


F                     Bb 
Some folks whispered, some just talked 
         F                     Bb 
But everybody looked the other way 
    Dm                           Bb      F      C 
And when time ran out, there was no one about 
                F     Bb F 
On Independence Day 



[Refrão]
 
N.C.        C                       Dm     
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing 
        Bb                       F               C       
Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning 
                Dm                        Bb    
Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong 
                 F                   C  
Roll that stone away, let the guilty pay 
N.C.              F    Bb  F   Bb    
It's Independence Day 


          F                   Bb          
Well, she lit up the sky that Fourth of July 
       F                     Bb          
By the time that the firemen come 
         F                            Bb              F          
They just put out the flames and they took down some names 
    C                          
And sent me to the county home 


    F                   Bb               
Now I ain't saying it's right or it's wrong 
    F                   Bb      
But maybe it's the only way 
      Dm                  Bb      F 
Let's talk about your revolution 
C                 F 
It's Independence Day 



[Refrão]
 
N.C.        C                       Dm     
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing 
        Bb                       F               C       
Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning 
                Dm                        Bb    
Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong 
                 F                   C  
Roll that stone away, let the guilty pay 
N.C.              F    Bb 
It's Independence Day 
                 F    Bb 
Roll that stone away 
                  F   Bb   F 
It's Independence Day