Ragged Old Flag - Johnny Cash

Ragged Old Flag LRC歌词

[00:02.21]I walked through a county courthouse square,

[00:05.77]On a park bench an old man was sitting there.

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[00:09.02]I said, "Your old courthouse is kinda run down."

[00:12.26]He said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town."

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[00:16.24]I said, "Your old flagpole has leaned a little bit,

[00:19.36]And that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it."

[00:22.48]He said, "Have a seat." and I sat down.

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[00:26.66]"Is this the first time you've been to our little town?"

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[00:30.17]I said, "I think it is." He said, "I don't like brag,to

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[00:34.78]But we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag.

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[00:40.95]"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there

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[00:44.14]When Washington took it across the Delaware.

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[00:48.71]And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key

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[00:53.20]Sat watching it writing 'Say Can You See'.

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[00:58.44]And it got a bad rip in New Orleans

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[01:02.38]With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams.

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[01:06.87]"And it almost fell at the Alamo

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[01:09.86]Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on though.

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[01:16.10]She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville,

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[01:19.85]And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.

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[01:23.09]There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg,

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[01:26.40]And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag.

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[01:33.01]"On Flanders Field in World War I,

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[01:36.51]She got a big hole from a Bertha gun.

[01:39.07]

[01:40.19]She turned blood red in World War II...

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[01:43.18]She hung limp and low a time or two.

[01:46.18]

[01:49.30]She was in Korea and Vietnam;

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[01:52.29]She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.

[01:55.17]

[01:56.22]"She waved from our ships upon the briny foam,

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[01:59.66]And now they've about quit waving her back here at home.

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[02:04.81]In her own good land here she's been abused --

[02:08.05]She's been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused.

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[02:12.29]"And the government for which she stands

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[02:15.29]Is scandalized throughout the land.

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[02:18.29]And she's getting threadbare, and she's wearing thin,

[02:21.03]But she's in good shape for the shape she's in.

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[02:25.40]'Cause she's been through the fire before

[02:29.27]And I believe she can take a whole lot more.

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[02:32.57]"So we raise her up every morning, we take her

[02:35.42]down every night.

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[02:37.04]We don't let her touch the we ground, foldand

[02:38.84]her up right.

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[02:43.27]On second thought, I do like to brag,

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[02:47.83]'Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."