"That Ragged Old Flag"
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I walked through a county courthouse square, He said, "Have a seat," so I sat down. "You see, we got a little hole in that flag there It almost fell at the Alamo beside the Texas flag, "On Flanders Field in World War I, The Native Americans, The Blacks, The Yellows, The Whites And she's getting thread bare, and she's wearing kinda thin, "So we raise her up every morning, On second thought, Written by © Johnny Cash
On a park bench an old man was sitting there.
I said, "Your old courthouse is kinda run down."
He said, "No, it'll do for our little town."
I said, "Your old flag pole's kinda bent and leans a little bit,
And that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it."
He said, "this your first visit to our little town?"
I said, "I think it is."
He said, "I don't like to brag, but we're kinda proud of
That Ragged Old Flag."
When Washington took it across the Delaware.
It got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key wrote
"Oh Say Can You See."
It got a rip in New Orleans, with Packingham
and Jackson
tuggin' at its seams.
But she waved on tho.
It got cut with a sword in Chancellorsville,
Got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E. Lee and Beauregard and Bragg,
And the south wind blew hard on
"That Ragged Old Flag"
She took a bad hit from a Bertha Gun,
She turned blood red in World War II
She hung limp and low by the time that one was through,
She was in Korea, Vietnam, She went where she was sent
by her Uncle Sam."
All shed blood for the Stars and Stripes.
And here in her own good land,
She's been abused, burned, dishonored, denied,
And the very government for which she stands
Has been scandalized throughout out the land.
But she's in pretty good shape, for the shape that she's in.
Cause she's been through the fire
and she can take a whole lot more.
And we bring her down slow every night,
And we don't let her touch the ground
And we fold her up just right.
I do like to brag,
'Cause I'm mighty damn proud of
That Ragged Old Flag."
