4th of July

Alone with the mornin' burnin' red

On the canvas in my head

Paintin' a picture of you

And me, drivin' across country

In a dusty, old RV

Just the road and its majesty

And I'm lookin' at you

With the world in the rear view

You were pretty as can be sittin' in the front seat

Lookin' at me, tellin' me you love me

And you're happy to be with me on the 4th of July

We sang Stranglehold till the stereo

Couldn't take no more of that rock and roll

So we put on a little George Jones

And just sang along, hey

Those white lines get drawn into the sun

If you ain't got no one to keep you hangin' on

But there you were, like a queen in your nightgown

Ridin' shotgun from town to town

Stakin' a claim on the world we found

And I'm singing to you, you're singin' to me

You were out of the blue to a boy like me

You were pretty as can be sittin' in the front seat

Lookin' at me, tellin' me you love me

And you're happy to be with me on the 4th of July

We sang Stranglehold till the stereo

Couldn't take no more of that rock and roll

So we put on a little George Jones

And just sang along

Sang along

And I'm lookin' for you

In the silence that we share

You were pretty as can be sittin' in the front seat

Lookin' at me, tellin' me you love me

And you're happy to be with me on the 4th of July

We sang Stranglehold till the stereo

Couldn't take no more of that rock and roll

So we put on a little George Jones

And just sang along

Sang along

He stopped loving her today

They placed a wreath upon his door

Soon they'll carry him away

But he stopped loving her today

(When do you, when we gonna get paid for this, you reckon?)