Ragged Old Flag Chords by Johnny Cash

_ _ 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 leaned a little bit [F#m] and that's a [G#] ragged old flag you [C#m] got hanging on it.
_ [Am] He said, have a seat.
[E] And I sat down.
Is this the first time you've [A] been to our little [G#m] town?
I said, I think [C#m] it is.
He said, [G#m] I don't [F#m] like to brag, but we're kind of [B] proud of that ragged [E] old flag. _ _ _
You see, we got a little hole in that [G#] flag there when Washington took it across the [B] Delaware
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and it got powder burned the night that Francis Scott Key _ said, Washington, write and say,
can you see?
[G#m] _
_ _ And it got a bad rip in New Orleans _ [E] with Packingham and Jackson tugging [F#] at its seams and [G] it almost
fell [C#] at the Alamo [D#] _ beside the Texas flag, but she [B] waved on though.
_ _ _ _ _ She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville [C#] _ and she got cut [A#] again at Shiloh Hill.
[D#] There was Robert E.
Lee, Beauregard, [C#] and Bragg [G#] and the south wind blew hard on that [G#] ragged old flag.
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On [C#] Flanders Field in World War I, [G] she got a big hole from a [G#] berth of gun.
She [D#m] turned blood red in World War [F#] II.
She hung limp and low [G#] a time or two.
_ _ _ [C#]
She [F] was in Korea, [F#m] Vietnam.
_ She went [G] where she was sent by her Uncle [G#] Sam.
_ [C#] She [D#m] waved from our ships [G#] upon the briny foam [G] and now they've about quit waving back here
_ _ [G#] In her own good [Dm] land here, she's [A] been abused.
She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused.
_ [F#] And the government [G] for which she stands [F#] is scandalized [G] throughout the land.
[A] And she's getting threadbare and she's wearing [F#] thin, but [D] she's in good shape for the ship she's [A] in. _
Because she's [D] been through the fire before [C#] and I [B] believe she can take [Am] a whole lot more.
_ [Bm] So we raise her up every morning, [E] we take her [D] down every night, we don't let [F#m] her touch
the ground and we fold her [G] upright. _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] On second thought, [Gm]
I do like to [D] brag, cause I'm [G] mighty proud of that [F#m] ragged old [Bm] flag. _ _
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