Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960, in Richmond, Virginia) is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.
Mann attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes; the band released the EP Bark Along with the Young Snakes in 1982, and a compilation album was issued in 2004. In 1983, seeking a return to "sweetness and melody", she co-founded with Berklee classmate and boyfriend Michael Hausman the new wave band 'Til Tuesday
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[I can't fault the guy who submitted the other version, its one way to do it I guess but I think this is more accurate]
4th of July/Aimee Mann
capo up 3 frets 3/4 time signature
Em 022000 F#m7 242222 G 320033 Bm X24432 C X32013 A x02220 D/F# 2X0232 (you can play a D here and let the bass take the F#)
Intro EmF#m7G 2x
F#m7BmG Today's the 4th of July Another June has gone by F#m7BmCG And when they light up our town I just think EmF#m7G What a waste of gunpowder and sky
EmF#mG
F#m7BmG I'm certain I am alone In harbouring thoughts of our home F#m7BmCG It's one of my faults that I can't quell my past EmF#m7G I ought to have gotten it gone EmF#m7G I ought to have gotten it (one beat each) AGDEmD/F#BmEmAG Ooh baby I wonder if when you are older some day you'll wake up and say "My God I should have told her what would it take? But now here I am and the world's gotten colder GF#m7GF#m7G And she's got the river down which I sold her
F#m7BmG So that's today's memory lane With all the pathos and pain F#m7BmCG Another chapter in a book where the chapters are endless EmF#m7G And they're always the same A verse and a verse and refrain
[chorus]
GF#m7G And she's got the river down which I sold her