Our Flag
Posted by: roycordle <roycordle@...>
Johnny R. Cash
I walked through a county court house square
On a park bench an old man was sitting there,
I said, Your court house is kinda run down.
He said, Naw, itll do for our little town.
I said, Your flag pole has leaned a little bit
And thats a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it.
He said, Have a seat and I sat down
Is this the first time youve been in our little town?|
I said, I think it is, he said, I dont like to brag
But were kind proud of that Ragged Old Flag,
You see, we got a little hole in that flag thee
When Washing took it across the Delaware.
And it got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key
Sat watchin it writing Say Can You See.
And it got a bad rip in New Orleans
With Packinham and Jackson tuggin at its seems.
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
There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard and Bragg
And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag
On Flanders Field in World War I
She got a big hole from a Betha gun
She turned blood red in World War ii
She hung limp and low by the time it was through
She was in Korea and Vietnam
She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam
Native Americans, brown, yellow and white
All shed red blood for the Stars and Stripes
In her own good land here shes been abused
Shes been burned, dishonored, denied and refused
And the government for which she stands
Has been scandalized throughout the land
And shes getting threadbare and wearing thin
But shes in good shape for the shape shes in
Cause shes been through the fire before
And I believe she can take a whole lot more
So we raise her up every morning, take her down every night
We dont let her touch the ground and fold her up right
On second thought I do like to brag
Cause Im mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag.