Gingerbread Crumbs & Company

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 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"

Song By Johnny Cash the Man in Black.

Whenever my hubby and I take a road trip I never leave the house without my Johnny Cash. I first time I heard this song I cried and every time since then. We have been blessed with a great nation and it's my prayer that we would not take that for granted.