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Just look at her
![Here she is on the cover of Independence Day the best song on wife beating ever recorded](https://joelsolkoff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Martina_Mcbride.jpg)
Martina sings about wife beating on “Independence Day,” a remarkable video that give new meaning to the concept of Independence Day.
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Well she seemed all right by dawn’s early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak.
![Mother-suicide_attempt_successful](https://joelsolkoff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Mother-suicide_attempt_successful.jpg)
She tried to pretend he wasn’t drinkin’ again
But daddy’d left the proof on her cheek
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![Rape](https://joelsolkoff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Rape.jpg)
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And I was only eight years old that summer
And I always seemed to be in the way
Everlasting
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So I took myself down to the fair in town
On Independence Day.
![Beacon_Program](https://joelsolkoff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Beacon_Program-1024x583.jpg)
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Well , word gets around in a small, small town
They said he was a dangerous man
![State College Spousal Abuse Contact Information](https://joelsolkoff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/State-College-Spousal-Abuse-Contact-Information.jpg)
But mama was proud and she stood her ground
But she knew she was on the losin’ end.
![Heartbreak](https://joelsolkoff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Heartbreak.jpg)
Some folks whispered and some folks talked
![Consequences](https://joelsolkoff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Consequences.jpg)
But everybody looked the other way
And when time ran out there was no one about
On Independence Day.
![The Act](https://joelsolkoff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Act.jpg)
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Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today
Is a day of reckoning.
![Where is an eight year old girl to go](https://joelsolkoff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Where-is-an-eight-year-old-girl-to-go-1024x425.jpg)
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![Constitution](https://joelsolkoff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Constitution.jpg)
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