Ragged Old Flag - Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash - Man in Black: The Best of Johnny Cash - Ragged Old Flag

01.	Ring of Fire
02.	I Walk the Line
03.	Folsom Prison Blues (live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA – January 1968)
04.	Highwayman
05.	(Ghost) Riders in the Sky
06.	A Boy Named Sue (live at San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA – February 1969)
07.	Jackson
08.	One Piece at a Time
09.	Man in Black
10.	Sunday Morning Coming Down (live at Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN – July 1970)
11.	Cocaine Blues (live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA – January 1968)
12.	Ragged Old Flag
13.	Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
14.	American Remains
15.	The General Lee
16.	Orange Blossom Special
17.	There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang
18.	I Still Miss Someone
19.	It Ain’t Me, Babe
20.	She Used to Love Me a Lot
21.	A Thing Called Love
22.	Five Feet High and Rising
23.	Tennessee Flat‐Top Box
24.	Sunday Morning Coming Down (live)
25.	Hey Porter
26.	The Ballad of Ira Hayes
27.	San Quentin (live at San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA – February 1969, version 1)
28.	If I Were a Carpenter
29.	25 Minutes to Go (live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA, 1st Show – January 1968)
30.	Flesh and Blood
31.	I Got Stripes
32.	The One on the Right Is on the Left
33.	Song of the Patriot
34.	The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer
35.	Out Among the Stars
36.	Understand Your Man
37.	All Over Again
38.	Dark as the Dungeon (live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA – January 1968)
39.	I’m Movin’ On
40.	Wanted Man
41.	Long‐Legged Guitar Pickin’ Man
42.	Busted
43.	I Drove Her Out of My Mind
44.	The Rebel‐Johnny Yuma
45.	The Long Black Veil (live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA, 1st Show – January 1968)
46.	The Wall
47.	Me and Bobby McGee (live at Channel DR‐TV, Copenhagen, Denmark – September 1971)
48.	Send a Picture of Mother (live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA – January 1968)
49.	Help Me Make It Through the Night

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 bad rip in New Orleans, with Packingham & Jackson
Tugging at it's 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 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 take her down every night,
We don't let her touch the ground,
And we fold her up right.
On a second thought
I do like to brag
'Cause I'm mighty proud of that ragged old flag