Ragged Old Flag Chords by Johnny Cash

[G] _ _ [E] _ I walked through a county courthouse square [A] on [E] a park bench and an old man was sitting
there.
_ [A] I said, your old courthouse is kind of run [B] down.
He said, [G#m] no, it'll do for our
little town.
[E] _
I said, your [A] old flagpole is leaning a little bit [F#m] and that's a [G#] ragged old
flag [C#m] you got hanging on it.
_ [Am] He said, have a seat.
[E] And I sat down.
Is this the first
time [A] you've been to our little [G#m] town?
I said, I think [C#m] it is.
He [A] said, [G#m] I [F#m] don't like to
brag, but we're kind of [B] proud of that [E] ragged old flag. _ _ _
You see, we got a little [A] hole in
that flag there [E] when Washington [B] took it across the Delaware.
_ _ [E] _
And it got powder burned the
night that Francis Scott Key _ said, watching it right and say, can you see?
[B] _ _ _ [G#m] And it got
a bad rip in New Orleans, _ [E] _ _ Packingham and Jackson tugging [B] at its seams.
_ And [G#m] it almost fell [C#m] at
the Alamo _ beside the [A] Texas flag.
But she waved on, though.
_ [D#] _ _ [G#] _ _
She got cut with a sword
at Chancellorsville [C#] _ and she got [A#] cut again at Shiloh Hill.
[D#] There was Robert E.
Lee, Bora
Card and [C#] [D#] Bragg [C#] and [F#] the south wind blew hard on [G#] that ragged old flag.
[C#] _ _ _ _
[F#] On [C#] Flanders Field
[F#m] in World War One, [G] she got a big hole from a [G#] berth of gun.
[C#] She [D#m] turned blood red in World
[G#] War [F#] Two.
She hung limp and low [G#] a time or [C#] two. _ _ _
[F#] She [F] was in Korea, [F#] Vietnam. _
[G] She went where
she was sent by her [G#] Uncle Sam. _
[D#m] She waved from our ships [G#] upon the briny foam.
[G] And now they've
about quit waving back here at home. _
In her own good land here, she's been abused.
She's
been burned, dishonored, denied and refused. _
And the government for which she stands is
scandalized throughout the land.
And she's getting threadbare and she's wearing thin,
but she's in good shape.
What a shape she's in.
[D] _ Because she's been through the fire [F#] before. _
[G] And I [D] believe she can take a whole lot more.
_ [Bm]
So we raise her up every [B] morning.
[F#m] We take
her down every night.
We don't let her touch the ground and we hold [G] her up right. _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] On second
thought, [Gm] I do like to [D] brag, because I'm [G] mighty proud of [F#m] that ragged [Bm] old flag.
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