Fireworks

	  		
 

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Oh, there's going to be fireworks (fireworks!) 
On the Fourth of July (red, white, and blue!) 
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Red, white, and blue fireworks 
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Like diamonds in the sky. (diamonds in the sky!) 
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We're going to shoot the entire works on fireworks 
  
That really show, oh yeah 
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We declared our liberty 200 years ago 

 Yeah! 
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In 1776 (fireworks!) 
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There were fireworks too (red, white, and blue!) 
The original colonists 
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You know their tempers blew (They really blew!) 
Like Thomas Paine once wrote: 
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It's only common sense (only common sense) 
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That if a government won't give you your basic rights 
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You'd better get another government 
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And though some people tried to fight it 
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Well, a committee was formed to write it: 
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Benjamin Franklin, Philip Livingston 
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John Adams, Roger Sherman, Thomas Jefferson 
They got it done (Oh yes they did!) 
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The Declaration, uh-huh-huh 
The Declaration of Independence (oh yeah!) 
In seventeen hundred seventy six (right on!) 
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The Continental Congress said that we were free (we're free!) 
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Said we had the right of life and liberty 
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. . . And the pursuit of happiness! 
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Oh, when England heard the news (kerpow!) 
They blew their stack (they really blew their cool!) 
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But the colonists lit the fuse 
There'd be no turning back (no turning back!) 
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They'd had enough of injustice now 
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But even if it really hurts, oh yeah 
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If you don't give us our freedom now 
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You're going to see some fireworks! 
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And on the Fourth of July they signed it 
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And 56 names underlined it 
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And now to honor those first 13 states 
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We turn the sky into a birthday cake 
They got it done (oh yes, they did!) 
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The Declaration, uh-huh-huh 
 The Declaration of Independence (oh yeah!) 
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In seventeen hundred seventy six (right on!) 
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The Continental Congress said that we were free (we're free!) 
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Said we had the right of life and liberty 
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. . . And the pursuit of happiness! 
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We hold these truths to be self-evident 
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That all men are created equal 
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And that they are endowed by their creator 
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With certain inalienable rights 
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That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 
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And if there's one thing that makes me happy 
Then you know that it's (oh) 
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There's going to be fireworks!