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The Ragged Old Flag
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Johnny Cash
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I walked through a county courthouse square And on a park bench, an old man was sittin' there I said, Your old courthouse here is, is kinda run down 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 Well, he said, Son, 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, when Washington took it across the Delaware And it got powder-burns the night Francis Scott Key Sat watching it, writing, Oh, say can you see And it got a bad rip at New Orleans When Packingham and Jackson took it on the seam And it almost fell at the Alamo Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on through She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill Y'see there was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg The south wind blew hard, real hard, on that Ragged Old Flag On Flanders Field in World War I She got a big hole from a Bertha gun She turned blood red in World War II And she hung limp, and low, a time or two She was in Korea, and Vietnam She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam She waved from our ships upon the briny foam Now they've about quit wavin' her back here at home In her own good land here, she's been abused She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused And the government for which she stands Is been scandalized throughout the land She's getting threadbare, and she's wearing thin But she's in good shape, for the shape she's in Because 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 take her down every night We don't let her touch the ground And we fold her up right On second thought, said the old guy I do like to brag Because I'm mighty proud Of that Ragged Old Flag
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