Johnny Cash song for the 4th

[G95champ]

RAGGED OLD FLAG

 

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, it'll do for our little town"

 

I said, "Your flag pole has 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

 

"Is this the first time you've been in 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 watchin' it writing "Say Can You See'

 

And it got a bad rip in New Orleans

 

With Packinham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams

 

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 Bertha 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 she's been abused

 

She's been burned, dishonored, denied and refused

 

And the government for which she stands

 

Has been scandalized throughout the land

 

And she's getting threadbare and waring 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, take her down every night

 

We don't let her touch the ground and fold her up tight

 

On second thought I do like to brag

 

'Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."

 

 

 

 

[Don Gwinn]

Ahhhh. . . Johnny is still the king!