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Oh, there's going to be fireworks (fireworks!)On the Fourth of July (red, white, and blue!)Red, white, and blue fireworksLike diamonds in the sky. (diamonds in the sky!)We're going to shoot the entire works on fireworksThat really show, oh yeahWe declared our liberty 200 years agoYeah!In 1776 (fireworks!)There were fireworks too (red, white, and blue!)The original colonistsYou know their tempers blew (They really blew!)Like Thomas Paine once wrote:It's only common sense (only common sense)That if a government won't give you your basic rightsYou'd better get another governmentAnd though some people tried to fight itWell, a committee was formed to write it:Benjamin Franklin, Philip LivingstonJohn Adams, Roger Sherman, Thomas JeffersonThey got it done (Oh yes they did!)The Declaration, uh-huh-huhThe Declaration of Independence (oh yeah!)SongtexteIn seventeen hundred seventy six (right on!)The Continental Congress said that we were free (we're free!)Said we had the right of life and liberty. . . And the pursuit of happiness!Oh, when England heard the news (kerpow!)They blew their stack (they really blew their cool!)But the colonists lit the fuseThere'd be no turning back (no turning back!)They'd had enough of injustice nowBut even if it really hurts, oh yeahIf you don't give us our freedom nowYou're going to see some fireworks!And on the Fourth of July they signed itAnd 56 names underlined itAnd now to honor those first 13 statesWe turn the sky into a birthday cakeThey got it done (oh yes, they did!)The Declaration, uh-huh-huhThe Declaration of Independence (oh yeah!)In seventeen hundred seventy six (right on!)The Continental Congress said that we were free (we're free!)Said we had the right of life and liberty. . . And the pursuit of happiness!We hold these truths to be self-evidentThat all men are created equalAnd that they are endowed by their creatorWith certain inalienable rightsThat among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinessAnd if there's one thing that makes me happyThen you know that it's (oh)There's going to be fireworks! Aus Songtexte Mania