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[00:02.21]I walked through a county courthouse square,
[00:05.77]On a park bench an old man was sitting there.
[00:08.27]
[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.
[00:25.67]
[00:26.66]"Is this the first time you've been to our little town?"
[00:29.16]
[00:30.17]I said, "I think it is." He said, "I don't like brag,to
[00:34.02]
[00:34.78]But we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag.
[00:37.64]
[00:40.95]"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there
[00:43.52]
[00:44.14]When Washington took it across the Delaware.
[00:46.40]
[00:48.71]And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key
[00:51.76]
[00:53.20]Sat watching it writing 'Say Can You See'.
[00:55.82]
[00:58.44]And it got a bad rip in New Orleans
[01:00.75]
[01:02.38]With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams.
[01:05.19]
[01:06.87]"And it almost fell at the Alamo
[01:08.93]
[01:09.86]Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on though.
[01:13.23]
[01:16.10]She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville,
[01:18.54]
[01:19.85]And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
[01:21.84]
[01:23.09]There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg,
[01:25.71]
[01:26.40]And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag.
[01:30.45]
[01:33.01]"On Flanders Field in World War I,
[01:35.07]
[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...
[01:42.62]
[01:43.18]She hung limp and low a time or two.
[01:46.18]
[01:49.30]She was in Korea and Vietnam;
[01:51.42]
[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,
[01:59.10]
[01:59.66]And now they've about quit waving her back here at home.
[02:03.25]
[02:04.81]In her own good land here she's been abused --
[02:08.05]She's been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused.
[02:11.74]
[02:12.29]"And the government for which she stands
[02:14.29]
[02:15.29]Is scandalized throughout the land.
[02:17.66]
[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.
[02:24.40]
[02:25.40]'Cause she's been through the fire before
[02:29.27]And I believe she can take a whole lot more.
[02:31.89]
[02:32.57]"So we raise her up every morning, we take her
[02:35.42]down every night.
[02:36.35]
[02:37.04]We don't let her touch the we ground, foldand
[02:38.84]her up right.
[02:39.77]
[02:43.27]On second thought, I do like to brag,
[02:46.58]
[02:47.83]'Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."