Happy 250th Independence Day, America!
I saw this amazing segment this morning on FOX2 prior to the FIFA World Cup match between Canada and Morocco.
It will give you chills and make you tear up. What a beautiful tribute to America. Well done, Johnny. Well done, FOX!
According to Copilot, Johnny Cash wrote “Ragged Old Flag” in 1974 during a period of political unrest in the United States. Cash, a devoted patriot, composed the song to reaffirm faith in the country and highlight the enduring spirit of the American people.
The song tells the story of an elderly man in a small American town who explains the history and significance of the community’s ragged American flag to a visitor.
Urgent Intel posted the clip on X.
God Bless America!
I’m mighty proud of that ragged old flagJohnny Cash gave me the chills. pic.twitter.com/gfDdLs4yGX
— Urgent Intel (@urgentintel) July 4, 2026
Here are the words:
I walked through a county courthouse square. On a park bench, an old man was sitting there. I said, “Your courthouse is kind of run down.” He said, “No, it’ll do for our little town.” I said, “Your old flagpole is leaned a little bit, and that’s a ragged old flag you got hanging 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 kind of 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 that Francis Scott Key said, “Watchin’ it writin’ say can you see?” And it got a bad rip in New Orleans with Pakenham and Jackson.
Tugging at its seams, and it almost fell at the Alamo beside the Texas flag that she waved all day.
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville, and she got cut again at Shiloh Hill. There was Robert E. Lee, 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 waving us back here at home. In her own good land here, she’s been abused.
She’s been burned, dishonored, denied, refused, and the government for which she stands is scandalized throughout the land. And she’s getting threadbare and she’s wearing 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, we take her down every night, we don’t let her touch the ground, and we fold her of right.
On second thought, I do like to brag, ’cause I’m mighty proud of that ragged old flag.
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