Chords for Gretchen Peters Live from the Bluebird Cafe

_ I think this song took me about a year and a half to finish,
mostly because I was scared about how _ dark and kind of gothic it was.
_ _ And when I did finally sort of succumb to the song and got done with it,
_ I was absolutely positively sure that nobody would ever touch it with a ten-foot pole.
_ But I liked it and I decided that I would _ go into the studio and make a [E] demo of it,
just to satisfy myself, because I thought it was a [Eb] good song.
But nobody was going to cut it, nobody was going to record it.
So the very first artist that ever heard it recorded it, within a couple of weeks, I think.
_ And not only that, it was a single, and it was just everything that I knew that it wouldn't be.
And _ I _ learned a really important lesson then.
That's not my job to worry about that stuff, and it was a good thing.
And I have to remind myself from time to time, but all that other stuff just doesn't matter.
[Ab] It's just getting the song out that's what matters.
_ _ [Bb] _ _
Well [Bbm] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Db] _
_ [F] she seemed alright [Db] by dawn's early light
[F] Though she looked a little worried [Db] and weak
_ [Eb] She tried to pretend he wasn't drinking again
_ [Gm] But daddy left the proof [Eb] on her cheek _
_ I was only eight [Db] years old that summer
[F] And I always seemed to be in the [Bb] way _
[Fm] So I took myself down to [F] the fair in town
On Independence Day _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ [Ab] Well word gets around in [Db] a small, small town
They said he was a dangerous man
_ _ [Abm] Mama was [Bb] proud and she [Db] stood [Abm] her ground
But she [Eb] knew she was on the losing end
_ _ [Ab] Some folks [Db] whispered, some just talked
But everybody looked the other [Db] way
_ [Fm] And when time ran out, there was [Db] no one left
[Eb] On Independence [Ab] Day
_ _ _ Let [Eb] freedom _ ring
_ Let the white [Fm] dove _ sing
_ Let [Db] the whole world know that [Ab] today
Is a [Eb] day of reckoning
Let the weak [Fm] be strong
_ Let the right [Db] be wrong
_ _ Roll the [Ab] stone away
Let the [Eb] guilty pay
It's Independence _ [Ab]
Day
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ [Db] _ _ [Ab] Well she lit up the sky that 4th of July
[Ab] By the time that the firemen come
_ They just put out the flames
Took down some leaves
[Eb] And sent me to the county home
_ _ [Ab] Now I ain't saying it's [Db] right or it's wrong
[Ab] But maybe it's the old [Db] way
_ _ _ [Fm] Talk about your _ [Db] revolution
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] It's Independence [Ab] Day
_ Let _ freedom [Eb] _ ring
_ Let the white [Fm] dove sing _ _ _ _
Let [Db] the whole world know that today
Is a day [Eb] of _ reckoning
Let the weak be [Fm] _ _ strong
Let the right [Db] be wrong _ _
Roll the stone [Ab] away
_ _ _ [F] _ _
[Eb] It's Independence [Ab] _ Day
_ [Db] _
Roll the stone [Ab] away
_ _ _ [Db] _
It's Independence [Ab] _ _ _ Day
[Db] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _