Ragged Old Flag Chords

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