That Ragged Old Flag - Johnny Cash
Artist : “Johnny Cash”
Song title : “That Ragged Old Flag”
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i walked through a county courthouse square
On a park bench
An old man was sittin' there
I said
Your old court house is kinda run down
He said
Naw
It'll do for our little town
I said
Your old flag pole is leaned a bit
And that's a ragged old flag you got hangin' on it
He said
Have a seat
And i sat down
Is this the first time you've been 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
You see
We got a little hole in that flag there
When washington took it across the delaware;
And it got powder burned the night francis scott key sat watching it
Writing say can you see
It got a rip in new orleans
With packingham and jackson tugging at it's seams
And it almost fell at the alamo
Beside the texas flag
But she waved on through
She got cut with a sword at chancellorille
And she got cut again at shiloh hill
There was robert e lee and beauregard and bragg
And the south wind was blowing hard on that ragged old flag
On flanders field in world war i
She got a big hole frm a bertha gun
She turned blood red in world war ii
She hung limp
And low
A time or two
She was in korea
Vietnam
She went where she was sent by her uncle sam
She waved from our ships upon the briny foam and now they've about quit wavin' back here at home in her own good land here she's been abused
She's been burned
Dishonored
Denied an' refused
And the government for which she stands
Has been scandalized throughout the land
And she's getting threadbare
And she's wearin' thin
But she's in good shape
for the shape she's in
Cause she's been through the fire before
And i believe she can take a whole lot more
So we raise her up every morning
And we bring her down slowly every night
We don't let her touch the ground
On second thought
I do like to brag
Cause i'm mighty proud of
Tht ragged old flag