Chords for The Highwaymen ~ Ragged Old Flag
Tempo:
132.95 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
D
Em
Am
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Anyway, we're going to, after this tour, we go to Europe and our tour ends in Bucharest,
Romania, and looking forward to going there.
But of all the places we've ever been overseas, it don't matter where, you know, when we come
back to this country, we love it a whole lot more than when we left and went somewhere else.
I thank God for all the, I thank God for all the freedoms we've got in this country.
I cherish them, and cherish them, even the rights to burn the flag, you know.
I'm proud of those rights.
But I'll tell you what, we've also got, let me tell you something, shh, we've also got
a right to bear arms, and if you burn my flag, I'll shoot you.
But I'll shoot you with a lot of love like a gun.
After such a trip overseas in 1975, I wrote this.
[G] I walked through a county courthouse square, and on a park [C] bench, an old man was sitting [G] there.
I said, your old courthouse is kind of run [C] down.
He said, no, it'll do for our little town.
[D] I [G] said, your old flagpole's kind of leaned a little bit, and that's a ragged old flag
[Em] you got hanging on it.
[D] He said, have a seat.
And I said, Al, [Em] is this the first time you've [D#] come to our little town?
I said, I think it [Cm] is.
He said, [A] [G] I don't like to brag, but we're [Dm] kind of [Am] proud of that ragged [G] old flag.
[N]
[G] You see, we got a little hole in that flag there when Washington took [C] it across the Delaware,
and it got powdered during the night.
[G] Frances Scott Key set up watching it right in [D] the stake, and you [Gm] see, [G] got a little rip
in New Orleans with Buckingham and Jackson, tugging at its seams.
[C] It almost [Am] fell at the Alamo [Gm] beside the Texas flag, but [G] she waved on, though.
It got cut with a sword at [C] Chancellorsville, got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E.
Lee, [F#m] Beauregard, and Bragg in the [G] south [A] wind blew hard [G] on that ragged old flag.
On 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 [D] low by the time Dublin was through.
She was in [G] Korea, Vietnam.
She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.
The Native American Indians, the blacks, yellow, the white, all shed red [Bm] blood for [Em] the Stars and Stripes.
[N] Her men are on good land here.
She's been abused.
[G] She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused, and the very government for which she [C] stands
[Am] is scandalized [G] throughout the land.
And she's [C] getting threadbare and she's wearing [G] kind of thin, but she's in good shape [C] for
the shape she's in.
For she's been [G] through the fire before and she can [C] take a whole lot more.
So [G] we raise her up every morning and we bring her down [C] slowly every night.
We don't let her touch the [G] ground and we hold her upright.
On second thought, I guess I do like [Em] the Bragg, because I'm [Bm] mighty proud of that ragged old [Em] flag.
[Cm]
[G] [D]
[G]
[N]
Well, I always said Waylon was an American original.
He struck out on doing it his own way and he made it work against great odds in the
Nashville music community.
He did it in un
Romania, and looking forward to going there.
But of all the places we've ever been overseas, it don't matter where, you know, when we come
back to this country, we love it a whole lot more than when we left and went somewhere else.
I thank God for all the, I thank God for all the freedoms we've got in this country.
I cherish them, and cherish them, even the rights to burn the flag, you know.
I'm proud of those rights.
But I'll tell you what, we've also got, let me tell you something, shh, we've also got
a right to bear arms, and if you burn my flag, I'll shoot you.
But I'll shoot you with a lot of love like a gun.
After such a trip overseas in 1975, I wrote this.
[G] I walked through a county courthouse square, and on a park [C] bench, an old man was sitting [G] there.
I said, your old courthouse is kind of run [C] down.
He said, no, it'll do for our little town.
[D] I [G] said, your old flagpole's kind of leaned a little bit, and that's a ragged old flag
[Em] you got hanging on it.
[D] He said, have a seat.
And I said, Al, [Em] is this the first time you've [D#] come to our little town?
I said, I think it [Cm] is.
He said, [A] [G] I don't like to brag, but we're [Dm] kind of [Am] proud of that ragged [G] old flag.
[N]
[G] You see, we got a little hole in that flag there when Washington took [C] it across the Delaware,
and it got powdered during the night.
[G] Frances Scott Key set up watching it right in [D] the stake, and you [Gm] see, [G] got a little rip
in New Orleans with Buckingham and Jackson, tugging at its seams.
[C] It almost [Am] fell at the Alamo [Gm] beside the Texas flag, but [G] she waved on, though.
It got cut with a sword at [C] Chancellorsville, got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E.
Lee, [F#m] Beauregard, and Bragg in the [G] south [A] wind blew hard [G] on that ragged old flag.
On 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 [D] low by the time Dublin was through.
She was in [G] Korea, Vietnam.
She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.
The Native American Indians, the blacks, yellow, the white, all shed red [Bm] blood for [Em] the Stars and Stripes.
[N] Her men are on good land here.
She's been abused.
[G] She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused, and the very government for which she [C] stands
[Am] is scandalized [G] throughout the land.
And she's [C] getting threadbare and she's wearing [G] kind of thin, but she's in good shape [C] for
the shape she's in.
For she's been [G] through the fire before and she can [C] take a whole lot more.
So [G] we raise her up every morning and we bring her down [C] slowly every night.
We don't let her touch the [G] ground and we hold her upright.
On second thought, I guess I do like [Em] the Bragg, because I'm [Bm] mighty proud of that ragged old [Em] flag.
[Cm]
[G] [D]
[G]
[N]
Well, I always said Waylon was an American original.
He struck out on doing it his own way and he made it work against great odds in the
Nashville music community.
He did it in un
Key:
G
C
D
Em
Am
G
C
D
_ _ _ _ _ Anyway, we're going to, after this tour, we go to Europe and our tour ends in Bucharest,
Romania, and looking forward to going there.
But of all the places we've ever been overseas, it don't matter where, you know, when we come
back to this country, we love it a whole lot more than when we left and went somewhere else. _ _
_ I _ _ _ _ _ thank God for all the, I thank God for all the freedoms we've got in this country.
I cherish them, and cherish them, _ _ _ even the rights to burn the flag, you know.
I'm proud of those rights.
But I'll tell you what, _ _ we've also got, let me tell you something, shh, we've also got
a right to bear arms, and if you burn my flag, I'll shoot you. _ _ _
But _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I'll shoot you with a lot of love like a gun. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ After such a trip overseas in 1975, I wrote this.
_ _ [G] _ I walked through a county courthouse square, and on a park [C] bench, an old man was sitting [G] there.
I said, your old courthouse is kind of run [C] down.
He said, no, it'll do for our little town.
[D] I [G] said, your old flagpole's kind of leaned a little bit, and that's a ragged old flag
[Em] you got hanging on it.
_ [D] He said, have a seat.
And I said, Al, [Em] is this the first time you've [D#] come to our little town?
I said, I think it [Cm] is.
He said, _ [A] [G] I don't like to brag, but we're [Dm] kind of [Am] proud of that ragged [G] old flag.
_ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] You see, we got a little hole in that flag there when Washington took [C] it across the Delaware,
_ and it got powdered during the night.
[G] Frances Scott Key set up watching it right in [D] the stake, and you [Gm] see, _ [G] got a little rip
in New Orleans with Buckingham and Jackson, tugging at its seams.
[C] It almost [Am] fell at the Alamo [Gm] beside the Texas flag, but [G] she waved on, though.
_ _ _ _ It got cut with a sword at [C] Chancellorsville, got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E.
Lee, [F#m] Beauregard, and Bragg in the [G] south [A] wind blew hard [G] on that _ ragged old flag.
_ On 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 [D] low by the time Dublin was through.
_ She was in [G] Korea, _ Vietnam.
She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.
The Native American Indians, the blacks, yellow, the white, all shed red [Bm] blood for [Em] the Stars and Stripes.
[N] _ Her men are on good land here.
She's been abused.
[G] She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused, and the very government for which she [C] stands
[Am] is scandalized [G] throughout the land.
And she's [C] getting threadbare and she's wearing [G] kind of thin, but she's in good shape [C] for
the shape she's in.
For she's been [G] through the fire before and she can [C] take a whole lot more.
So [G] we raise her up every morning and we bring her down [C] slowly every night.
We don't let her touch the [G] ground and we hold her upright.
On second thought, I guess I do like [Em] the Bragg, because I'm [Bm] mighty proud of that ragged old [Em] flag.
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Well, I always said Waylon was an American original.
He struck out on doing it his own way and he made it work against great odds in the
Nashville music community.
He did it in un
Romania, and looking forward to going there.
But of all the places we've ever been overseas, it don't matter where, you know, when we come
back to this country, we love it a whole lot more than when we left and went somewhere else. _ _
_ I _ _ _ _ _ thank God for all the, I thank God for all the freedoms we've got in this country.
I cherish them, and cherish them, _ _ _ even the rights to burn the flag, you know.
I'm proud of those rights.
But I'll tell you what, _ _ we've also got, let me tell you something, shh, we've also got
a right to bear arms, and if you burn my flag, I'll shoot you. _ _ _
But _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I'll shoot you with a lot of love like a gun. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ After such a trip overseas in 1975, I wrote this.
_ _ [G] _ I walked through a county courthouse square, and on a park [C] bench, an old man was sitting [G] there.
I said, your old courthouse is kind of run [C] down.
He said, no, it'll do for our little town.
[D] I [G] said, your old flagpole's kind of leaned a little bit, and that's a ragged old flag
[Em] you got hanging on it.
_ [D] He said, have a seat.
And I said, Al, [Em] is this the first time you've [D#] come to our little town?
I said, I think it [Cm] is.
He said, _ [A] [G] I don't like to brag, but we're [Dm] kind of [Am] proud of that ragged [G] old flag.
_ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] You see, we got a little hole in that flag there when Washington took [C] it across the Delaware,
_ and it got powdered during the night.
[G] Frances Scott Key set up watching it right in [D] the stake, and you [Gm] see, _ [G] got a little rip
in New Orleans with Buckingham and Jackson, tugging at its seams.
[C] It almost [Am] fell at the Alamo [Gm] beside the Texas flag, but [G] she waved on, though.
_ _ _ _ It got cut with a sword at [C] Chancellorsville, got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E.
Lee, [F#m] Beauregard, and Bragg in the [G] south [A] wind blew hard [G] on that _ ragged old flag.
_ On 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 [D] low by the time Dublin was through.
_ She was in [G] Korea, _ Vietnam.
She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.
The Native American Indians, the blacks, yellow, the white, all shed red [Bm] blood for [Em] the Stars and Stripes.
[N] _ Her men are on good land here.
She's been abused.
[G] She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused, and the very government for which she [C] stands
[Am] is scandalized [G] throughout the land.
And she's [C] getting threadbare and she's wearing [G] kind of thin, but she's in good shape [C] for
the shape she's in.
For she's been [G] through the fire before and she can [C] take a whole lot more.
So [G] we raise her up every morning and we bring her down [C] slowly every night.
We don't let her touch the [G] ground and we hold her upright.
On second thought, I guess I do like [Em] the Bragg, because I'm [Bm] mighty proud of that ragged old [Em] flag.
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Well, I always said Waylon was an American original.
He struck out on doing it his own way and he made it work against great odds in the
Nashville music community.
He did it in un
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