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I walked through a county courthouse square,
On a park bench an old man was sitting there.
I said,"Your old courthouse is kinda run-down."
He said,"Naw,it'll do for our little town."
I said,"Your flagpole has leaned a little 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 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."
And it got a rip in New Orleans
With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at it's seams.
And it allmost fell at the Alamo
Beside the Texas flag,but she waved on though.
She got cut with a sword at chancellorsville
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E. Lee,Beauregard and Bragg,
The south wind blew hard on that ragged old flag.
On Flander's 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.
She waved from our ship's on the briny foam,
And now they've about quit waving her back here at home
In her own good land here she's been abused
She's been burned,dishonored,denied and refused.
And the government for wich she stand's
Is scandalized throughout the land.
And she's gettin' threadbare and 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,take her down every night
We don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right.
On second thought,i DO like to brag,
'Cause i'm mighty proud of that ragged old flag."
    "Ragged Old Flag" by Johnny Cash
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