Fireworks

Ooh! There's gonna be fireworks
On the Fourth of July.
Red white and blue fireworks,
like diamonds in the sky.
We're gonna shoot the entire works
on fireworks that really show
We declared our liberty 200 years ago.

In 1776 there were fireworks too
The original colonists,
you know their tempers blew.
Like Thomas Paine once wrote,
it's only Common Sense
That if a government won't give you
your basic rights,
You'd better get another government.

And though some people tried to fight it,
A committee was formed to write it.
Benjamin Franklin, Philip Livingston,
John Adams, Roger Sherman, Thomas Jefferson.
They got it done -- the Declaration.
The Declaration of Independence, in 1776
The Continental Congress said
that we were free.
They said we had the right of life and liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.

When England heard the news,
they blew their stack.
But the colonists lit the fuse,
there'd be no turning back.
They'd had enough injustice now,
but even if it really hurts,
If you don't give us our freedom now,
you're gonna see some fireworks.

Now on the fourth of July they signed it,
and 56 names underlined it.
And now to honor those first 13 states,
we turn the sky into a birthday cake.
They got it done -- the Declaration.
The Declaration of Independence, in 1776,
The Continental Congress said
that we were free.
They said we had the right of life and liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.

And if there's one thing that makes me happy,
then you know that's it's
There's gonna be fireworks.