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Well, papa go to bed now it's getting late,
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nothing we can say is gonna change anything now
        G                               D
I'll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary's Gate,
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we wouldn't change this thing even if we could somehow

          G                                  D
Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us,
          G                                   D
there's a darkness in this town that's got us too,                                         
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But they can t touch me now and you can't touch me now,
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they ain't gonna do to me what I watched them do to you

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So say goodbye, it's Independence Day,
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it's Independence Day all down the line
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Just say goodbye, it's Independence Day,
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it's Independence Day this time

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Now, I don't know what it always was with us,
             G                            D
we chose the words, and yeah, we drew the lines
               G                                D
There was just no way this house could hold the two of us, anymore,
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I guess that we were just too much of the same kind

      G                     D
Well, say goodbye, it's Independence Day,
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it's Independence Day, all boys must run away,
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So say goodbye it's Independence Day,
             A                        G
all men must make their way, come Independence Day

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Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie's joint,
        G                                              D
and the highway she's deserted clear down to Breaker's Point
          G                                             D
There's a lot of people leaving town now, leaving their friends, their homes;
              A                                G
at night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone

      G                       D
Well, papa go to bed now it's getting late,
G                                          D
nothing we can say is gonna change anything now
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Because there's just different people coming down here now,
                                 D
and they see things in different ways;
         A                                   G
and soon everything we've known will just be swept away

   G                    D
So say goodbye it's Independence Day,
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papa now I know the things you wanted that you could not say
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But won't you just say goodbye, it's Independence Day,
          A                         G
I swear I never meant to take those things away

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