《Ragged Old Flag (background music - Shenandoah) (arr. M. Brown and F. Ticheli)》歌词

[00:00:00] Ragged Old Flag (background music - Shenandoah) (arr. M. Brown and F. Ticheli) - Michael Dudley/United States Army Chorus/United States Army Band

[00:00:45] I walked through a county courthouse square

[00:00:48] On a park bench an old man was sitting there

[00:00:53] I said Your old courthouse is kinda run down

[00:00:58] He said Naw it'll do for our little town

[00:01:04] I said Your flagpole has leaned a little bit

[00:01:08] And that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it

[00:01:13] He said Have a seat and I sat down

[00:01:18] And he said

[00:01:19] Is this the first time you've been to our little town

[00:01:24] I said I think it is He said I don't like to brag

[00:01:29] But we're kind proud of that Ragged Old Flag

[00:01:35] You see we got a little hole in that flag there when

[00:01:38] Washington took it across the Delaware

[00:01:42] And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key

[00:01:46] Sat watching it writing Say Can You See

[00:01:51] And it got a bad rip in New Orleans

[00:01:54] With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seems

[00:01:59] And it almost fell at the Alamo

[00:02:02] Beside the Texas flag but she waved on though

[00:02:08] She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville

[00:02:13] And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill

[00:02:17] There was Robert E Lee Beauregard and Bragg

[00:02:22] And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag

[00:02:29] On Flanders Field in World War I

[00:02:32] She got a big hole from a Bertha gun

[00:02:36] She turned blood red in World War II

[00:02:40] She hung limp and low the time war II

[00:02:45] She was in Korea and Vietnam

[00:02:48] She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam

[00:02:52] Native American is brown yellow and white

[00:02:56] All ships red blood for the stars and straves

[00:03:02] In her own good land here she's been abused

[00:03:06] She's been burned dishonored denied

[00:03:10] And refused

[00:03:13] And the government for which she stands

[00:03:15] Has benn scandle lies and for an ialand

[00:03:20] And she's getting threadbare and she's wearing thin

[00:03:25] But she's in good shape for the shape she's in

[00:03:29] 'Cause she's been through the fire before

[00:03:33] And I believe she can take a whole lot more

[00:03:37] So we raise her up every morning

[00:03:39] Take her Down every night

[00:03:42] We don't let her touch the ground and we fold

[00:03:46] Her up right

[00:03:48] On second thought I do like to brag

[00:03:52] 'Cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag

[00:03:57] Everynight Everynight my love