Ragged Old Flag-Johnny Cash

[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." [00:15.50] [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."