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RAGGED OLD FLAG - LOFI EDIT
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Johnny Cash
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[Interviewer]: John, you wrote a song for us and I think you may have written it while you were in the Air Force called Ragged Old Flag No, I wrote that in 1975 [Interviewer]: Did you? In Binghamton, New York [Interviewer]: I saw you do it on the Fourth of July, several years ago, at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Could you do it for us right now? Ragged Old Flag I walked through a county courthouse square And on a park bench an old man was sitting there I said, “Your old courthouse is kinda run down.” He said, “Naw, that'll do for our little town” I said, “Your old flagpole’s kind of leaned a little bit. And that's a ragged old flag you got hanging on it He said, “Have a seat,”and I sat down “this the first time you've come 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.” 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 up watching it writing say can you see Got a bad rip in New Orleans Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams It almost fell at the Alamo Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on though She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville Got cut again at Shiloh Hill There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg and the south wind blew hard on that ragged old flag Ragged old flag On Flanders Field in World War One She took a bad hit from a Bertha gun She turned blood red in World War Two 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 The Native American Indians, The blacks, the yellow, the white All shed red blood for the stars and stripes And in her own good land here she's been abused She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused And the very government for which she stands Is scandalized throughout the land And she's getting threadbare And she's wearing kind of thin But she's in good shape for the shape she's in 'Cause she's been through the fire before And she can take a whole lot more So we raise her up every morning Bring her down slowly every night We don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right On second thought, I guess I do like to brag 'Cause I'm mighty proud of that ragged old flag Ragged old flag
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