Shall I tell it again how we started as friends
  Who would run into one another now and again
  At the Yippee Cai O or the Mesa Dupree
  Or a dozen different everyday places to be
  
  I was loping along living alone
  We were ever so brave on the telephone
  Would you care to come down for fireworks time
  We could each just reach
  We step out of line
  
  And the smell of the smoke and the lay of the land
  and the feeling of finding one's heart in one's hand
  and the tiny tin voice of the radio band singing
  "love must stand"
  Love forever and ever must stand
  
  Unbelievable you, impossible me
  The fool who fell out of the family tree
  The fellow that found the philosopher's stone
  Deep underground like a dinosaur bone
  
  Who fell into you at a quarter to two
  With a tear in your eye for the Fourth of July
  For the patriots and the minutemen
  And the things you believe they believed in then
  
  Such as freedom, and freedom's land
  And the kingdom of God and the rights of man
  With the tiny tin voice of the radio band
  Singing "love must stand"
  Love forever and ever must stand
  And forever must stand
  
  Oh the smell of the smoke as we lay on the land
  and the feeling of finding my heart in my hand
  with the tiny tin voice of the radio band
  singing "love must stand"
  love forever and ever must stand
  
  All on the Fourth of July
  On the Fourth of July