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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:29:31 +0000 (GMT)
 From: "Rev. Linda Slug" 
 Subject: Born on the 4th July 
 Here are the chords and words to the Tom Paxton song "Born on the fourth 
 of July", written about the Viet Nam veteran Ron Kovic, who was 
 paralysed in the war. It is based on Kovic's autobiography of the same 
 name, which in turn has been made into a film starring Tom Cruise. I 
 thought that if you're going to bother having any Tom Paxton on your 
 guitar file you might at least have one of his better, though less 
 well-known songs, instead of just rubbish like the Marvellous Toy.
 
 Born On The Fourth Of July - Tom Paxton
 
 
 C	Em	F	G
 
 C	Em	F	G
 
      C                         Em     
 As a schoolboy I played with a plastic grenade 
        F             G           C 
 It was grey and with caps it was loaded
        F                        C         Am
 In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die
       F                G         C
 As it flew through the air and exploded
      E                         Am      
 As a young man my dream was to be a marine
    F                          G
 My flag was worth all I could bring it
     C                           Em 
 The country was young. When the anthem was sung
    F           G             C 
 It gave me the goosebumps to sing it
 
 
 
       F                       C  
 I was born on the fourth of July
 F                      G
 No-one more loyal than I
         C                     Em
 When my country said so I was ready to go
       F             G             C
 And I wish I'd been left there to die
 
 Em 	F	 G
 
 
 When I landed in Nam I was with Uncle Sam
 I was fighting for God and my mother
 And I knew what to do when my first tour was through
 I signed up and went back for another
 But it all tumbled down when we ambushed the town
 In the night how the metal was flying
 We blew it to hell. Really did our job well,
 But just women and kids did the dying
 
 I was born on the fourth of July
 No-one more loyal than I
 When my country said so I was ready to go
 And I wish I'd been left there to die
 
 In the damn DMZ it all ended for me 
 The fighting broke out and we scattered
 One shot hit my heel, the last thing I feel
 The next hit my spine and it shattered
 In my hospital bed I could hear what was said
 And the word will stay with me forever
 With my whole life ahead, my body was dead
 And the word they were using was never
 
 
 Now I wheel myself down to the crossroads of town
 To see the young girls and their lovers
 And my mind is afire, it's alive with desire
 Christ, I'd barely begun, now it's over
 In my wheelchair for life, my mechanical wife
 I'm supposed to be cheerful and stoic
 I'm your old tried-and-true, Yankee Doodle to you
 Clean-cut, paralysed and heroic
 
 
 Chords and words transcribed by David Linley 
 Please send any comments or mistakes to me.