Chords
The 12th Of July

Key: C

Introduction:

 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