Chords for The Highwaymen - Ragged Old Flag (American Outlaws: Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1990)
Tempo:
138.7 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
D
Em
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[G] I walked through a county courthouse square and on a park bench an [C] old man was sitting
there.
[G]
I said, your old courthouse is kind of run down.
[C] He said, no, it'll do for our
little [F#] town.
I said, [G] your old flagpole's kind of leaned a little bit, and that's a ragged
old [Em] flag you got hanging on it.
He [Bm] said, have a seat.
And I sat down.
[Em] Is this the first
time you've come to our little [Cm] town?
I said, I think it is.
He said, [A] [G] I don't like to brag,
but [D] we're kind of proud [Am] of that ragged old [G] flag.
[N]
[G] You see, we got a little hole in that
flag there when Washington [C] took it across the Delaware.
And it got powder burned the
[G] night Frances Scott Key set up watching it right in, [D]
say, can you see?
[E] [G] Got a little rip
in New Orleans with Buckingham and Jackson, tugging at its seams.
[C]
It almost [Am] fell at the
Alamo beside the Texas [G] flag, but she waved on them.
It got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville.
[C] Got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E.
Lee, [F#m]
Beauregard, and Bragg in [G] the south
wind [C] blew hard on [G] 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 that one was through.
She was in Korea, [G]
Vietnam.
She went where she was
sent by her Uncle Sam.
The Native American Indians, the blacks, yellow, the white, all
shed red blood for the Stars and [Em] Stripes.
And in her own [E] good land here, she's been
abused.
[G]
She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused.
And the [D] very [G] government for which
she [C] stands is [D] scandalized throughout [G] the land.
And [C] she's getting threadbare, and she's wearing
kind [G] of thin, but she's in good [C] shape for the shape she's in.
Because [G] she's been through
the fire before, and she can take a [C] whole lot more.
[G] So 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 the [Em] Bragg, because I'm mighty [Bm] proud
of that ragged old [Em] flag.
[Cm] [G] [D]
[G]
there.
[G]
I said, your old courthouse is kind of run down.
[C] He said, no, it'll do for our
little [F#] town.
I said, [G] your old flagpole's kind of leaned a little bit, and that's a ragged
old [Em] flag you got hanging on it.
He [Bm] said, have a seat.
And I sat down.
[Em] Is this the first
time you've come to our little [Cm] town?
I said, I think it is.
He said, [A] [G] I don't like to brag,
but [D] we're kind of proud [Am] of that ragged old [G] flag.
[N]
[G] You see, we got a little hole in that
flag there when Washington [C] took it across the Delaware.
And it got powder burned the
[G] night Frances Scott Key set up watching it right in, [D]
say, can you see?
[E] [G] Got a little rip
in New Orleans with Buckingham and Jackson, tugging at its seams.
[C]
It almost [Am] fell at the
Alamo beside the Texas [G] flag, but she waved on them.
It got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville.
[C] Got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E.
Lee, [F#m]
Beauregard, and Bragg in [G] the south
wind [C] blew hard on [G] 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 that one was through.
She was in Korea, [G]
Vietnam.
She went where she was
sent by her Uncle Sam.
The Native American Indians, the blacks, yellow, the white, all
shed red blood for the Stars and [Em] Stripes.
And in her own [E] good land here, she's been
abused.
[G]
She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused.
And the [D] very [G] government for which
she [C] stands is [D] scandalized throughout [G] the land.
And [C] she's getting threadbare, and she's wearing
kind [G] of thin, but she's in good [C] shape for the shape she's in.
Because [G] she's been through
the fire before, and she can take a [C] whole lot more.
[G] So 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 the [Em] Bragg, because I'm mighty [Bm] proud
of that ragged old [Em] flag.
[Cm] [G] [D]
[G]
Key:
G
C
D
Em
Bm
G
C
D
[G] _ _ I walked through a county courthouse square and on a park bench an [C] old man was sitting
there.
[G]
I said, your old courthouse is kind of run down.
[C] He said, no, it'll do for our
little [F#] town.
I said, [G] your old flagpole's kind of leaned a little bit, and that's a ragged
old [Em] flag you got hanging on it.
He [Bm] said, have a seat.
And I sat down.
[Em] Is this the first
time you've come to our little [Cm] town?
I said, I think it is.
He said, _ [A] [G] I don't like to brag,
but _ [D] we're kind of proud [Am] of that ragged old [G] flag. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] You see, we got a little hole in that
flag there when Washington [C] took it across the Delaware.
And it got powder burned the
[G] night Frances Scott Key set up watching it right in, [D]
say, can you see?
[E] _ [G] Got a little rip
in New Orleans with Buckingham and Jackson, tugging at its seams.
[C]
It almost [Am] fell at the
Alamo beside the Texas [G] flag, but she waved on them. _ _ _
It got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville.
[C] Got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E.
Lee, [F#m]
Beauregard, and Bragg in [G] the south
wind [C] blew hard on [G] 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 that one was through.
_ She was in Korea, [G] _
Vietnam.
She went where she was
sent by her Uncle Sam.
The Native American Indians, the blacks, yellow, the white, all
shed red blood for the Stars and [Em] Stripes. _
And in her own [E] good land here, she's been
abused.
[G] _
She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused.
And the [D] very [G] government for which
she [C] stands is [D] scandalized throughout [G] the land.
And [C] she's getting threadbare, and she's wearing
kind [G] of thin, but she's in good [C] shape for the shape she's in.
Because [G] she's been through
the fire before, and she can take a [C] whole lot more.
[G] So 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 the [Em] Bragg, because I'm mighty [Bm] proud
of that ragged old [Em] flag.
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
there.
[G]
I said, your old courthouse is kind of run down.
[C] He said, no, it'll do for our
little [F#] town.
I said, [G] your old flagpole's kind of leaned a little bit, and that's a ragged
old [Em] flag you got hanging on it.
He [Bm] said, have a seat.
And I sat down.
[Em] Is this the first
time you've come to our little [Cm] town?
I said, I think it is.
He said, _ [A] [G] I don't like to brag,
but _ [D] we're kind of proud [Am] of that ragged old [G] flag. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] You see, we got a little hole in that
flag there when Washington [C] took it across the Delaware.
And it got powder burned the
[G] night Frances Scott Key set up watching it right in, [D]
say, can you see?
[E] _ [G] Got a little rip
in New Orleans with Buckingham and Jackson, tugging at its seams.
[C]
It almost [Am] fell at the
Alamo beside the Texas [G] flag, but she waved on them. _ _ _
It got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville.
[C] Got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E.
Lee, [F#m]
Beauregard, and Bragg in [G] the south
wind [C] blew hard on [G] 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 that one was through.
_ She was in Korea, [G] _
Vietnam.
She went where she was
sent by her Uncle Sam.
The Native American Indians, the blacks, yellow, the white, all
shed red blood for the Stars and [Em] Stripes. _
And in her own [E] good land here, she's been
abused.
[G] _
She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused.
And the [D] very [G] government for which
she [C] stands is [D] scandalized throughout [G] the land.
And [C] she's getting threadbare, and she's wearing
kind [G] of thin, but she's in good [C] shape for the shape she's in.
Because [G] she's been through
the fire before, and she can take a [C] whole lot more.
[G] So 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 the [Em] Bragg, because I'm mighty [Bm] proud
of that ragged old [Em] flag.
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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