Put the explosives down and check out this obscure Motown record from The Starry Spangles, swept up and carefully reconstructed via ai music magic.
Not much is known about The Starry Spangles as this was their first and only record, though the individual members would go on to form other groups. “We kind of painted ourselves into a corner,” group member Debbie Fletcher said in a mid-tier Netflix Motown documentary. “Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to name ourselves something so specifically related to July 4th along with the song. But Valarie attended this barbeque where a guy lost one of his arms and three of his fingers on the other hand and the song kind of wrote itself.”
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Lyrics:
It's your favorite time of year
You invited all our friends to a barbeque here
But baby listen (listen)
When the sun goes down
Stay on the mission (mission)
And mingle and talk
No don't you walk to the garage
To get those fireworks
Cause we don't wanna have to pick pieces of you off of our shirts
Baby don't blow up on the 4th of July
I'd only have five months to find another guy
Before Christmas (Christmas)
(Stay inside)
Cook some burgers, keep your fingers
And later we can go for a ride
But when you are so very deep inside
Baby don't you blow up on the 4th of July
I don't want to have to talk
With our friends and family while we try to wash you off
All you need to do is move along
And stop fussin' around with recreational bombs
Baby don't blow up on the 4th of July
I'd only have five months to find another guy
Before Christmas (Christmas)
(Stay inside)
Flip some burgers, keep your fingers
And use 'em when we go for a ride
I'll need a whole grown man tonight
So baby don't you blow up on the 4th of July
Baby don't blow up (baby don't blow up)
Baby don't blow up (baby don't blow up)
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