Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
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Other songs:
- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
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Gretchen Peters - Independence Day
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: F Bb F Bb F Bb F
Bb
Well she seemed all right by dawn's early light
F Bb
Though she looked a little worried and weak
F Bb F
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinking again
C
But Daddy'd left the proof on her cheek
F Bb
I was only eight years old that summer
F Bb
And I always seemed to be in the way
Dm Bb F C
So I took myself down to the fair in town
F Bb F Bb
On Independence Day
F Bb
Well, word gets around in a small, small town
F Bb
They said he was a dangerous man
F Bb F
But Mama was proud and she stood her ground
C
She knew she was on the losing end
F Bb
Some folks whispered, some just talked
F Bb
But everybody looked the other way
Dm Bb F C
And when time ran out, there was no one about
F Bb F
On Independence Day
CHORUS:
N.C. C Dm
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Bb F C
Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning
Dm Bb
Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
F C
Roll that stone away, let the guilty pay
N.C. F Bb F Bb
It's Independence Day
F Bb
Well, she lit up the sky that Fourth of July
F Bb
By the time that the firemen come
F Bb F
They just put out the flames and they took down some names
C
And sent me to the county home
F Bb
Now I ain't saying it's right or it's wrong
F Bb
But maybe it's the only way
Dm Bb F
Let's talk about your revolution
C F
It's Independence Day
CHORUS:
N.C. C Dm
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Bb F C
Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning
Dm Bb
Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
F C
Roll that stone away, let the guilty pay
N.C. F Bb
It's Independence Day
F Bb
Roll that stone away
F Bb F
It's Independence Day
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: F Bb F Bb F Bb F
Bb
Well she seemed all right by dawn's early light
F Bb
Though she looked a little worried and weak
F Bb F
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinking again
C
But Daddy'd left the proof on her cheek
F Bb
I was only eight years old that summer
F Bb
And I always seemed to be in the way
Dm Bb F C
So I took myself down to the fair in town
F Bb F Bb
On Independence Day
F Bb
Well, word gets around in a small, small town
F Bb
They said he was a dangerous man
F Bb F
But Mama was proud and she stood her ground
C
She knew she was on the losing end
F Bb
Some folks whispered, some just talked
F Bb
But everybody looked the other way
Dm Bb F C
And when time ran out, there was no one about
F Bb F
On Independence Day
CHORUS:
N.C. C Dm
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Bb F C
Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning
Dm Bb
Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
F C
Roll that stone away, let the guilty pay
N.C. F Bb F Bb
It's Independence Day
F Bb
Well, she lit up the sky that Fourth of July
F Bb
By the time that the firemen come
F Bb F
They just put out the flames and they took down some names
C
And sent me to the county home
F Bb
Now I ain't saying it's right or it's wrong
F Bb
But maybe it's the only way
Dm Bb F
Let's talk about your revolution
C F
It's Independence Day
CHORUS:
N.C. C Dm
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Bb F C
Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning
Dm Bb
Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
F C
Roll that stone away, let the guilty pay
N.C. F Bb
It's Independence Day
F Bb
Roll that stone away
F Bb F
It's Independence Day
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