Ragged Old Flag(Live at The Carter Fold, Hiltons, VA, 1976)-Johnny Cash

[ti:Ragged Old Flag(Live at The Ca] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:Bootleg 3: Live Around the Wor] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ragged Old Flag(Live at The Carter Fold, Hiltons, VA, 1976) - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:40.35]I walked through a county courthouse square [00:43.28]On a park bench an old man was sittin' there [00:47.10]I said "Your old court house is kinda run down [00:49.28]He said "Naw it'll do for our little town" [00:51.41] [00:52.09]I said "Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit [00:54.72]And that's a ragged old flag you got hangin' on it" [00:58.08]He said "Have a seat" and I sat down [01:00.39]"Is this the first time you've been to our little town" [01:03.26]I said "I think it is" [01:04.51]He said "I don't like to brag but we're kinda proud of [01:07.63]That Ragged Old Flag [01:09.88] [01:15.30]"You see we got a little hole in that flag there [01:17.74]When Washington took it across the Delaware [01:19.92]And It got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it [01:24.85]Writing "Say Can You See" [01:26.60] [01:27.79]It got a bad rip in New Orleans with Packingham & Jackson [01:30.66]Tugging at its seams [01:32.03]And It almost fell at the Alamo [01:35.15]Beside the Texas flag [01:36.29]But she waved on though [01:39.34]She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville [01:41.78]And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill [01:43.90]There was Robert E Lee and Beauregard and Bragg [01:46.70]And the south wind blew hard on [01:49.08]That Ragged Old Flag [01:50.89] [01:53.38]"On Flanders Field in World War I [01:56.56]She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun [01:58.24]She turned blood red in World War II [02:02.91]She hung limp and low a time or two [02:05.91]She was in Korea Vietnam She went where she was sent [02:13.28]By her Uncle Sam [02:14.78]She waved from our ships upon the briny foam [02:18.02]And now they've about quit wavin' back here at home [02:20.96]In her own good land here She's been abused [02:22.72]She's been burned dishonored denied an' refused [02:24.34]And the government for which she stands [02:28.40]Has scandalized throughout out the land [02:30.21]And she's getting thread bare and she's wearin' thin [02:34.27]But she's in good shape for the shape she's in [02:37.13]Cause she's been through the fire before [02:39.44]And i believe she can take a whole lot more [02:41.75]"So we raise her up every morning [02:43.44]And we take her down every night [02:45.87]We don't let her touch the ground [02:48.37]And we fold her up right [02:51.24]On second thought [02:51.92]I *do* like to brag [02:55.54]Cause I'm mighty proud of [02:58.22]That Ragged Old Flag