[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.44]Classical Artists - Ragged Old Flag [00:44.82]I walked through a county courthouse square [00:48.49]On a park bench an old man was sittin' there [00:52.85]I said your old court house is [00:55.89]Kinda run down [00:58.07]He said naw it'll do for our little town [01:03.80]I said your old flag pole is leaned a little bit [01:08.60]And that's a ragged old flag [01:10.87]You got hangin' on it [01:12.91]He said have a seat and I sat down [01:18.38]And decent is this the first time you've [01:21.48]Been to our little town [01:24.54]I said I think it is [01:27.07]He said I don't like to brag [01:29.05]But we're kinda proud of [01:31.37]That ragged old flag [01:35.20]You see we got a little hole in that flag there [01:38.01]When washington took it across the delaware [01:42.43]And it got powder burned the night francis [01:45.15]Scott key sat watching it [01:47.39]Writing say can you see [01:50.48]And it got a bad rip in new orleans [01:53.85]With packingham jackson [01:56.04]Tugging at its seams [01:58.77]And it almost fell at the alamo [02:02.03]Beside the texas flag [02:04.25]But she waved on though [02:08.30]She got cut with a sword at chancellorsville [02:12.73]And she got cut again at shiloh hill [02:17.02]There was robert e lee [02:18.92]And beauregard and bragg [02:21.78]And the south wind blew hard on [02:24.76]That ragged old flag [02:28.69]On flanders field in world war 1 [02:32.07]She got a big hole from a bertha gun [02:35.85]She turned blood red in world war 2 [02:39.85]She hung limp and low a time or two [02:45.18]She was in korea vietnam [02:48.70]She went where she was sent [02:50.20]By her uncle sam [02:52.50]Lady for Americans brown yellow and white [02:56.46]Or shed red  black for the store and the stress [03:02.43]In her own good land here she's been abused [03:06.21]She's been burned dishonored [03:08.99]Denied an' refused [03:13.01]And the government for which she stands [03:15.63]Has been scandalized throughout out the land [03:19.93]And she's getting thread bare [03:22.03]And she's wearin' thin [03:24.58]But she's in good shape for the shape she's in [03:29.31]Cause she's been through the fire before [03:32.82]And I believe she can take a whole lot more [03:36.73]So we raise her up every morning [03:39.30]And we take her down every night [03:42.55]We don't let her touch the ground [03:45.11]And we fold her up right [03:48.39]On second thought [03:49.97]I do like to brag [03:52.45]Cause I'm mighty proud of [03:54.39]That ragged old flag