《Ragged Old Flag》歌词

[00:00:02] I walked through a county courthouse square

[00:00:05] On a park bench an old man was sittin' there

[00:00:09] I said "Your old court house is kinda run down

[00:00:12] He said "Naw it'll do for our little town"

[00:00:16] I said "Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit

[00:00:19] And that's a ragged old flag you got hangin' on it"

[00:00:22] He said "Have a seat" and I sat down

[00:00:26] "Is this the first time you've been to our little town"

[00:00:29] I said "I think it is"

[00:00:31] He said "I don't like to brag but we're kinda proud of

[00:00:37] That Ragged Old Flag

[00:00:41] "You see we got a little hole in that flag there

[00:00:44] When Washington took it across the Delaware

[00:00:48] And It got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it

[00:00:54] Writing "Say Can You See"

[00:00:57] It got a bad rip in New Orleans with Packingham & Jackson

[00:01:04] Tugging at its seams

[00:01:07] And It almost fell at the Alamo

[00:01:10] Beside the Texas flag

[00:01:11] But she waved on though

[00:01:16] She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville

[00:01:19] And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill

[00:01:22] There was Robert E Lee and Beauregard and Bragg

[00:01:26] And the south wind blew hard on

[00:01:29] That Ragged Old Flag

[00:01:33] "On Flanders Field in World War I

[00:01:36] She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun

[00:01:40] She turned blood red in World War II

[00:01:43] She hung limp and low a time or two

[00:01:49] She was in Korea Vietnam She went where she was sent

[00:01:53] By her Uncle Sam

[00:01:56] She waved from our ships upon the briny foam

[00:01:59] And now they've about quit wavin' back here at home

[00:02:04] In her own good land here She's been abused

[00:02:08] She's been burned dishonored denied an' refused

[00:02:12] And the government for which she stands

[00:02:15] Has scandalized throughout out the land

[00:02:18] And she's getting thread bare and she's wearin' thin

[00:02:21] But she's in good shape for the shape she's in

[00:02:25] Cause she's been through the fire before

[00:02:28] And i believe she can take a whole lot more

[00:02:32] "So we raise her up every morning

[00:02:35] And we take her down every night

[00:02:37] We don't let her touch the ground

[00:02:38] And we fold her up right

[00:02:43] On second thought

[00:02:44] I *do* like to brag

[00:02:48] Cause I'm mighty proud of

[00:02:50] That Ragged Old Flag"