Johnny Cash - That Ragged Old Flag

Most of us will remember the wonderful Country Music songs of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash...but you may not know Ralph Emery, In this video, Ralph Emery interviews, Johnny Cash and Emery asks Johnny Cash about what He thinks of burning the Flag... He has an interesting response and then reads the Lyrics to a song He wrote about "That Ragged Old Flag". It is not the music rendition, but to me THE WORDS OF THIS SONG ARE VERY POWERFUL based on all the negative protesting rioting, looting, flag desecration and the tearing down of historical monuments... I urge you to take the time to watch and listen to this...and absolutely share it wherever you can...

"Johnny Cash on the Ralph Emery show, they talk about Burning The Flag. Johnny voices his feelings, then recites "Ragged Old Flag". A priceless moment for our Flag & Freedom.

Why all Americans should STAND & show respect this country and the flag flying so proudly above... So those who have sacrificed so much will never be forgotten." YouTube

LYRICS:

"Ragged Old Flag" by the late Johnny Cash

I walked through a county courthouse square
On a park bench, an old man was sittin' there.
I said, "Your old court house is kinda run down,
He said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town".
I said, "Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit,
And that's a ragged old flag you got hangin' on it".
He said, "Have a seat", and I sat down,
"Is this the first time you've been to our little town"
I said, "I think it is"
He said "I don't like to brag, but we're kinda proud of
That Ragged Old Flag

"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there,
When Washington took it across the Delaware.
and It got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it,
writing "Say Can You See"
It got a rip in New Orleans, with Packingham & Jackson
tugging at its seams.
and It almost fell at the Alamo
beside the Texas flag,
But she waved on though.
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville,
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E. Lee and Beauregard and Bragg,
And the south wind blew hard on
That Ragged Old Flag

"On Flanders Field in World War I,
She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun,
She turned blood red in World War II
She hung limp, and low, a time or two,
She was in Korea, Vietnam, She went where she was sent
by her Uncle Sam.
She waved from our ships upon the briny foam
and now they've about quit wavin' back here at home
in her own good land here She's been abused,
She's been burned, dishonored, denied an' refused,
And the government for which she stands
Has been scandalized throughout out the land.
And she's getting thread bare, and she's wearin' thin,
But she's in good shape, for the shape she's in.
Cause she's been through the fire before
and i believe she can take a whole lot more.

"So we raise her up every morning
And we bring her down slow every night,
We don't let her touch the ground,
And we fold her up right.
On second thought
I *do* like to brag
Cause I'm mighty proud of
That Ragged Old Flag"

Writer(s) Johnny Cash, 1975

I hope you all enjoy it, share it, and protect "That Ragged Old Flag"...