Shall I tell it again how we started as friends   Who would run into one another now and again   At the yippee cai o or the mesa dupree   Or a dozen different everyday places to be      I was loping along living alone   We were ever so brave on the telephone   Would you care to come down for fireworks time   We could each just reach   We step out of line      And the smell of the smoke and the lay of the land   And the feeling of finding one's heart in one's hand   And the tiny tin voice of the radio band singing   "love must stand"   Love forever and ever must stand      Unbelievable you, impossible me   The fool who fell out of the family tree   The fellow that found the philosopher's stone   Deep underground like a dinosaur bone      Who fell into you at a quarter to two   With a tear in your eye for the fourth of july   For the patriots and the minutemen   And the things you believe they believed in then      Such as freedom, and freedom's land   And the kingdom of God and the rights of man   With the tiny tin voice of the radio band   Singing "love must stand"   Love forever and ever must stand   And forever must stand      Oh the smell of the smoke as we lay on the land   And the feeling of finding my heart in my hand   With the tiny tin voice of the radio band   Singing "love must stand"   Love forever and ever must stand      All on the fourth of july   On the fourth of july