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I walked through a county courthouse square, |
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On a park bench an old man was sitting there. |
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I said, "Your old courthouse is kinda run down." |
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He said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town." |
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I said, "Your old flagpole has leaned a little bit, |
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And that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it." |
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He said, "Have a seat." and I sat down. |
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"Is this the first time you've been to our little town?" |
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I said, "I think it is." He said, "I don't like brag,to |
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But we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag. |
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"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there |
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When Washington took it across the Delaware. |
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And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key |
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Sat watching it writing 'Say Can You See'. |
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And it got a bad rip in New Orleans |
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With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams. |
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"And it almost fell at the Alamo |
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Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on though. |
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She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville, |
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And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill. |
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There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg, |
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And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag. |
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"On Flanders Field in World War I, |
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She got a big hole from a Bertha gun. |
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She turned blood red in World War II... |
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She hung limp and low a time or two. |
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She was in Korea and Vietnam; |
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She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam. |
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"She waved from our ships upon the briny foam, |
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And now they've about quit waving her back here at home. |
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In her own good land here she's been abused -- |
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She's been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused. |
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"And the government for which she stands |
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Is scandalized throughout the land. |
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And she's getting threadbare, and she's wearing thin, |
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But she's in good shape for the shape she's in. |
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'Cause she's been through the fire before |
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And I believe she can take a whole lot more. |
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"So we raise her up every morning, we take her |
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down every night. |
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We don't let her touch the we ground, foldand |
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her up right. |
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On second thought, I do like to brag, |
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'Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag." |