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Ooh, there's gonna be fireworks on the Fourth of July

Red, white, and blue fireworks, like diamonds in the sky

We're gonna shoot the entire works

On fireworks that really show, oh yeah,

That we declared our liberty 200 years ago

In 1776, there were fireworks too

The original colonists, you know their tempers blew

Like Thomas Paine once wrote: It's only Common Sense

That if a government won't give you your basic rights

You'd better get another government

And though some people tried to fight it,

Well, a committee was formed to write it:

Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston,

John Adams, Roger Sherman, Thomas Jefferson

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They got it done, the Declaration, uh-uh-huh

The Declaration of Independence

In seventeen hundred seventy six

The Continental Congress said that we were free

Said we had the right of life and liberty

And the pursuit of happiness

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Ooh, when England heard the news, they blew their stack

But the colonies lit the fuse, there'd be no turning back

They'd had enough of injustice now, but even if it really hurts, oh yeah

If you don't give us our freedom now, you're gonna see some fireworks

And on the Fourth of July they signed it, and 56 names underlined it

And now to honor those first 13 states, we turn the sky into a birthday cake

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal

That they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights

That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

And if there's one thing that makes me happy,

Then you know that it's: there's gonna be fireworks