Ragged Old Flag chords by The Highwaymen
Verse 1
G
I walked through a county
courthouse square
and on the park bench
an old man was sitting there.
I said your old courthouse
C
is kind of run down.
G
D
said no it'll do for our little town.
G
Eb
I said your old flagpole
G
is kind of leaned a little bit
and that's a ragged old flag
Em
you've got hanging on it.
He said have a seat
G
Bm
D
an d I said now is this
G
the first time
C
you've come to our little town?
Eb
D
I said I think it is he said I don't like to brag
G
D
G
but we're kind of proud of that ragged old flag you see we got a little
D
G
C
hole in that flag there when Washington took it across the Delaware
D
G
and it got powder burned the night
C
G
D
Francis Scott Key stood up watching it right and say
G
can you see got a little rip in New with Packingham
C
and Jackson tuggin' at it s seams.
It almost fell at the Alamo
G
be side the Texas flag,
D
G
but she waved on.
D
It got cut with a sword at
C
Chancellorsville,
got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
Eb
There was Robert E. Lee,
D
Beauregard, Bragg,
and the south wind blew hard
G
C
on that ragged old flag.
G
In Flanders Field in World War I,
She took a bad hit from a Bertha gun.
C
She turned blood red in World War II.
She hung limp and low,
D
but the time that one was through.
She was in Korea, Vietnam.
She went where she was sent
G
by her Uncle Sam.
C
The Native Americans, blacks,
brown, yellow, white,
G
all shed red blood for the
Stars and Stripes.
And in her own good man here
she's been abused,
and burned, dishonored, denied, refused,
And the very government
for which you stand
C
G
has been scandalized
D
G
throughout the land.
C
And she's getting threadbare
G
and she's wearing kind of thin,
but she's in good shape for
the shape she's in.
Well, she's been through the fire before,
C
and she can take a whole lot more.
G
So we raise her up every morning.
C
We bring her down slowly every night.
D
G
We don't let her touch the ground,
and we hold her upright.
Em
On second thought,
Bm
Em
I guess I do like to brag,
Eb
Cause I'm not even proud
G
D
of that ragged old flag.
G
Ragged Old Flag
The Highwaymen
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