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(Some people never do listen to the lyrics) McBride’s Hit Song Is Not About The 4th Of July If you listen to the rest of the lyrics, you will quickly find out that the song is actually about a mother who her alcoholic husband is abusing. The narrator is just eight years old when she decides to get out of the way of her parents fighting, and heads to the county fair. There, she heard whispers from her neighbors about how her dad was a “dangerous man,” but no one did anything to help her or her mom. While the narrator was at the fair, her mom set fire to her house with her husband inside. The lyric, “They just put out the flames, and took down some names, and send me to the county home,” revealed that the mother was also inside the house. https://classiccountrymusic.com/no-martina-mcbrides-independence-day-is-not-about-the-4th-of-july/