The 12th Of July

	  		Intro 

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Verse 
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Come pledge again your heart and your hand 
                          C 
One grasp that never will sever 
                           F 
Our password be our native land 
                   C 
Our motto, love forever 
            Am          C 
And let the orange lily be 
     F                 Dm 
Your badge, my patriot brother 
         C                     G 
It's the everlasting green for me 
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And we for one another 

Verse 
                             F 
Behold how green the gallant stem 
                       C 
On which the flower is blooming 
                               F 
How in one heavenly breeze and beam 
                         C 
Both flower and stem are glowing 
              Am              C 
The same good soil sustaining both 
      F           Dm 
Makes both united flourish 
    C                      G 
But cannot give the orange growth 
    F                  C        G 
And cease the green to nourish 

Verse 
    C                              F 
The more the hand that plucks that flower 
                      C 
Will vainly strive to cherish 
                             F 
In that hour the stem blooms on 
                         C 
The flower, it begins to perish 
                    Am    C 
Regard them then of equal worth 
      F                 Dm 
While last their genial weather 
    C                   G 
The time's at hand when deep in earth 
     F                C       G  F    G  C 
They will both sink together 

Verse 
                                  F 
And though it be in our country's cause 
                   C 
Our party feelings blended 
                              F 
'Til lasting peace from equal laws 
                    C 
On both will have descended 
              Am          C 
'Til then the orange lily be 
     F                 Dm 
Your badge, my patriot brother 
         C                     G 
It's the everlasting green for me 
    F           C 
And we for one another 
    F           C 
And we for one another