Today's the Fourth of July Another June has gone by And when they light up our town I just think What a waste of gun powder and sky I'm certain I am alone In harboring thoughts of our home It's one of my faults that I can't quell my past I ought to have gotten it gone Ought to have gotten it... Oh baby, I wonder if when you are older Someday You'll wake up and say "My God I should've told her What would it take But now here I am and the world's gotten colder And she's got the river down which I sold her" So that's today's memory lane With all of the pathos and pain Another chapter in a book Where the chapters are endless and they're always the same A verse, then a verse and refrain Oh baby, I wonder if when you are older Someday You'll wake up and say "My God I should've told her What would it take But now here I am and the world's gotten colder And she's got the river down which I sold her She's got the river down which I sold her"
