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On the 4th of July - James Taylor (詹姆斯·泰勒)
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
Oh the smell of the smoke
As we lay on the land
And the feeling of finding
My heart in my hand
And the tiny tin voice
Of the radio band
Singing 'love must stand'
Love forever and ever must stand
(All on the Fourth of July)
All on the Fourth of July