Ragged Old Flag (破烂的旧国旗) (Album Version)-Johnny Cash

[ti:Ragged Old Flag] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:Ragged Old Flag] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ragged Old Flag (Album) - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:02.28]I walked through a county courthouse square [00:05.75]On a park bench an old man was sitting there [00:09.38]I said "Your old courthouse is kinda run down " [00:12.12]He said "Naw it'll do for our little town " [00:16.22]I said "Your old flagpole has leaned a little bit [00:19.41]And that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it " [00:23.14]He said "Have a seat " and I sat down [00:26.69]"Is this the first time you've been to our little town " [00:30.22]I said "I think it is " He said "I don't like to brag [00:35.19]But we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag [00:40.95]"You see we got a little hole in that flag there when [00:44.39]Washington took it across the Delaware [00:48.66]And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key [00:53.18]Sat watching it writing Say Can You See [00:58.38]And it got a bad rip in New Orleans [01:02.33]With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seems [01:06.99]"And it almost fell at the Alamo [01:09.93]Beside the Texas flag but she waved on though [01:16.14]She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville [01:19.71]And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill [01:22.98]There was Robert E Lee Beauregard and Bragg [01:26.65]And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag [01:32.81]"On Flanders Field in World War I [01:36.59]She got a big hole from a Bertha gun [01:40.10]She turned blood red in World War II [01:43.29]She hung limp and low by the time it was through [01:49.25]She was in Korea and Vietnam [01:52.34]She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam [01:56.29]"She waved from our ships upon the briny foam [01:59.94]And now they've about quit waving her back here at home [02:04.86]In her own good land here she's been abused -- [02:07.96]She's been burned dishonored denied and refused [02:12.30]"And the government for which she stands [02:15.40]Is scandalized throughout the land [02:18.33]And she's getting threadbare and wearing thin [02:21.16]But she's in good shape for the shape she's in [02:25.52]'Cause she's been through the fire before [02:29.06]And I believe she can take a whole lot more [02:32.67]"So we raise her up every morning take her [02:35.33]Down every night [02:36.97]We don't let her touch the ground and we fold [02:39.19]Her up right [02:43.33]On second thought I do like to brag [02:47.77]'Cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag "