The 12th Of July Chords
by Cathie Ryan
The 12th Of July by Cathie Ryan is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, F, Am and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
C G F G C
Verse
F
Come pledge again your heart and your hand
C
One grasp that never will sever
F
Our password be our native land
C
Our motto, love forever
Am C
And let the orange lily be
F Dm
Your badge, my patriot brother
C G
It's the everlasting green for me
F C G F G C
And we for one another
Verse
F
Behold how green the gallant stem
C
On which the flower is blooming
F
How in one heavenly breeze and beam
C
Both flower and stem are glowing
Am C
The same good soil sustaining both
F Dm
Makes both united flourish
C G
But cannot give the orange growth
F C G
And cease the green to nourish
Verse
C F
The more the hand that plucks that flower
C
Will vainly strive to cherish
F
In that hour the stem blooms on
C
The flower, it begins to perish
Am C
Regard them then of equal worth
F Dm
While last their genial weather
C G
The time's at hand when deep in earth
F C G F G C
They will both sink together
Verse
F
And though it be in our country's cause
C
Our party feelings blended
F
'Til lasting peace from equal laws
C
On both will have descended
Am C
'Til then the orange lily be
F Dm
Your badge, my patriot brother
C G
It's the everlasting green for me
F C
And we for one another
F C
And we for one another