Ragged Old Flag (Album Version)-Johnny Cash

[ti:Ragged Old Flag] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:Discover Beyond] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.20]I walked through a county courthouse square [00:05.87]On a park bench an old man was sittin' there [00:09.49]I said "Your old court house is kinda run down [00:12.17]He said "Naw it'll do for our little town" [00:15.00] [00:16.31]I said "Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit [00:19.43]And that's a ragged old flag you got hangin' on it" [00:22.74]He said "Have a seat" and I sat down [00:26.67]"Is this the first time you've been to our little town" [00:29.33] [00:29.95]I said "I think it is" [00:31.82]He said "I don't like to brag but we're kinda proud of [00:37.39]That Ragged Old Flag [00:38.57] [00:41.07]"You see we got a little hole in that flag there [00:44.32]When Washington took it across the Delaware [00:46.77] [00:48.77]And It got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it [00:54.20]Writing "Say Can You See" [00:55.82] [00:57.69]It got a bad rip in New Orleans with Packingham & Jackson [01:03.82] [01:04.50]Tugging at its seams [01:05.69] [01:07.06]And It almost fell at the Alamo [01:09.12] [01:10.00]Beside the Texas flag [01:11.49]But she waved on though [01:13.36] [01:16.24]She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville [01:18.92] [01:19.86]And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill [01:22.79]There was Robert E Lee and Beauregard and Bragg [01:26.41]And the south wind blew hard on [01:29.03]That Ragged Old Flag [01:30.28] [01:33.14]"On Flanders Field in World War I [01:36.76]She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun [01:40.26]She turned blood red in World War II [01:43.32]She hung limp and low a time or two [01:46.94] [01:49.37]She was in Korea Vietnam She went where she was sent [01:53.24]By her Uncle Sam [01:54.42] [01:56.51]She waved from our ships upon the briny foam [01:59.88]And now they've about quit wavin' back here at home [02:03.44] [02:04.94]In her own good land here She's been abused [02:08.18]She's been burned dishonored denied an' refused [02:12.86]And the government for which she stands [02:15.61]Has scandalized throughout out the land [02:18.60]And she's getting thread bare and she's wearin' thin [02:21.42]But she's in good shape for the shape she's in [02:25.78]Cause she's been through the fire before [02:28.72]And i believe she can take a whole lot more [02:32.90]"So we raise her up every morning [02:35.20]And we take her down every night [02:37.33]We don't let her touch the ground [02:38.51]And we fold her up right [02:43.50]On second thought [02:44.56]I *do* like to brag [02:48.18]Cause I'm mighty proud of [02:50.43]That Ragged Old Flag"