intro: A - Em - F#m - E
A - Em - F#m - E
A
We heard the fireworks
Em
Rushed out to watch the sky,
F#m E
Happy go lucky, 4th of July
E
How can you live in the Northeast?
How can you live in the South?
How can you live on the banks of a river
When the floodwater pours from the mouth?
E
How can you be a Christian?
How can you be a Jew?
How can you be a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu?
How can you?
A Em
Weak as the winter sun, we enter life on earth.
F#m E
Names and religion comes just after date of birth.
A
Then everybody gets a tongue to speak
Em
And everyone hears an inner voice.
F#m E
A day at the end of the week to wonder and rejoice.
A Em F#m E
If the answer is infinite light, why do we sleep in the dark?
E
How can you live in the Northeast?
How can you live in the South?
How can you live on the banks of a river?
When the floodwater pours from the mouth?
E
How can you tattoo your body?
Why do you cover your head?
How can you eat from a rice bowl
the holy man only breaks bread?
A - Em - F#m - E
A Em
We watched the fireworks ´till they were fireflies.
F#m E
Followed a path of stars over the endless skies.
E
How can you live in the Northeast?
How can you live in the South?
How can you build on the banks of a river
A E
When the floodwater pours from the mouth, from the mouth?
E
I´ve been given all I wanted,
Only three generations off the boat.
I´ve harvested and I´ve planted.
I´m wearing my father´s old coat.
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