Ragged Old Flag

Johnny Cash


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 old flagpole 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 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 little 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 bad rip in New Orleans
With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seems.

"And it almost 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,
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 was sent where she was by her Uncle Sam.

"She waved from our ships upon 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 which she stands
Is scandalized throughout the land.
And she's getting threadbare and wearing 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 the Ragged Old Flag."


그외 검색된 가사들

가수 노래제목  
BlackHawk Between Ragged And Wrong  
George Jones I'm Ragged But I'm Right  
Scott Walker TWO RAGGED SOLDIERS  
Bob Dylan RAGGED & DIRTY  
Fleet Foxes Ragged Wood  
Bob Dylan Ragged & Dirty  
Jonathan Boulet This Song Is Called Ragged  
Tom Cochrane RAGGED ASS ROAD  
Grace Potter And The Nocturnals Ragged Company (Album Version)  
B'z Fly The Flag  
anti-flag Right On  
Stage Flag  
Red Flag If I Ever  
Anti-Flag Until It Happens To You  
Anti-Flag We Are The Lost  
Galneryus The Promised Flag  
Galneryus United Flag  
Galneryus Rebel Flag  
Galneryus Braving Flag  

관련 가사

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Various Artists Johnny Cash  
Yelawolf Johnny Cash  
Kid Rock Johnny Cash  
Alabama 3 Hello...I'm Johnny Cash  
Alabama 3 Hello... I'm Johnny Cash  
Dido White Flag (Johnny Toobad Mix)  
Tom Jones Ring Of Fire [Johnny Cash]  
Danzig THIRTEEN (Written for Johnny Cash)  
U2, The Edge The Wanderer (Feat. Johnny Cash)  
Bob Dylan RAGGED & DIRTY  




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