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You're a Grand Old Flag

by George M. Cohan [originally entitled "You're a Grand Ole Rag" (1906)]


    You're a grand old flag,
    You're a high flying flag
    And forever in peace may you wave.
    You're the emblem of
    The land I love.
    The home of the free and the brave.
    Ev'ry heart beats true
    'neath the Red, White and Blue,
    Where there's never a boast or brag.
    Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

    You're a grand old flag,
    You're a high flying flag
    And forever in peace may you wave.
    You're the emblem of
    The land I love.
    The home of the free and the brave.
    Ev'ry heart beats true
    'neath the Red, White and Blue,
    Where there's never a boast or brag.
    Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    Keep your eye on the grand old flag.




The Grand Old Flag of the United States of America

by George M. Cohan


    You're a grand old flag,
    You're a high flying flag
    And forever in peace may you wave.
    You're the emblem of
    The land I love.
    The home of the free and the brave.
    Ev'ry heart beats true
    'neath the Red, White and Blue,
    Where there's never a boast or brag.
    Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

    There's a feeling comes a-stealing,
    And it sets my brain a-reeling,
    When I'm listening to the music of a military band.
    Any tune like Yankee Doodle
    Simply sets me off my noodle,
    It's that patriotic something
    That no one can understand.

    Way down south, in the land of cotton,
    Melody untiring,
    Ain't that inspiring?
    Hurrah! Hurrah! We'll join the jubilee!
    And that's going some,
    For the Yankees, by gum!
    Red, White and Blue,
    I am for you!
    Honest, you're a grand old flag!

    You're a grand old flag,
    You're a high flying flag
    And forever in peace may you wave.
    You're the emblem of
    The land I love.
    The home of the free and the brave.
    Ev'ry heart beats true
    'neath the Red, White and Blue,
    Where there's never a boast or brag.
    Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

    I'm no cranky hanky panky,
    I'm a dead square, honest Yankee,
    And I'm mighty proud of that old flag
    That flies for Uncle Sam.
    Though I don't believe in raving
    Ev'ry time I see it waving,
    There's a chill runs up my back
    That makes me glad I'm what I am.

    Here's a land with a million soldiers,
    That's if we should need 'em,
    We'll fight for freedom!
    Hurrah! Hurrah! For every Yankee tar
    And old G.A.R.
    Ev'ry stripe, ev'ry star.
    Red, White and Blue,
    Hats off to you
    Honest, you're a grand old flag!

    You're a grand old flag,
    You're a high flying flag
    And forever in peace may you wave.
    You're the emblem of
    The land I love.
    The home of the free and the brave.
    Ev'ry heart beats true
    'neath the Red, White and Blue,
    Where there's never a boast or brag.
    Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

    You're a grand old flag,
    You're a high flying flag
    And forever in peace may you wave.
    You're the emblem of
    The land I love.
    The home of the free and the brave.
    Ev'ry heart beats true
    'neath the Red, White and Blue,
    Where there's never a boast or brag.
    Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    Keep your eye on the grand old flag.





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