Born On The Fourth Of July chords by
Tom Paxton

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Key: C major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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As a schoolboy I played with a plastic grenade

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It was gray and with caps it was loaded

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In the dirt we would cry

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and dramatically die

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As it flew to the air and exploded

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As a young man my dream

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was to be a marine

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My flag was worth all I could bring it

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The country was young,

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when the anthem was sung

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Well it gave me the

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goosebumps to sing it

Verse 2

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I was born on the fourth of July

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No one more loyal than I

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When my country said so

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I was ready to go

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And I wish I'd been left

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there to die

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Verse 3

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When I landed in 'Nam,

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I was Great Uncle Sam

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I was fighting for God and my mother

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And I knew what to do when my

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first tour was through

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I signed up and went back for another

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But it all tumbled down when

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we ambushed the town

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In the night how the metal was flying

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We blew it to hell, really did our job well

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But just women and kids did the dying

Verse 4

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I was born on the fourth of July

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No one more loyal than I

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When my country said so

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I was ready to go

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And I wish I'd been left there

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to die

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Verse 5

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In the damn DMZ, it all ended for me

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The fighting broke out and we scattered

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One shot hit my heel, the last thing I feel

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The next hit my spine and it shattered

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In my hospital bed I could hear

what was said

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And the word will stay with me forever

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With my whole life ahead,

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my body was dead

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And the word they were using was never

Verse 6

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I was born on the fourth of July

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No one more loyal than I

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When my country said so

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I was ready to go

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And I wish I'd been left

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there to die

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Em

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Verse 7

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C

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Now I wheel myself down

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to the crossroads of town

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To watch the young girls

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and their lovers

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And my mind is afire,

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it's alive with desire

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Christ, I'd barely begun, now it's over

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In my wheelchair for life,

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my mechanical wife

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I'm supposed to be cheerful and stoic

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I'm your old tried- and- true,

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Yankee Doodle to you

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C

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Clean- cut, paralysed and heroic

Verse 8

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I was born on the fourth of July

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No one more loyal than I

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When my country said so

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I was ready to go

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C

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And I wish I'd been left there to die

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Chords

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The original key of Born On The Fourth Of July by Tom Paxton is C major.

The primary chords used in Born On The Fourth Of July are G, Am, F, C, Em, E.

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