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You're A Grand Old Flag

• Words and Lyrics by
• George M. Cohan

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The Facts About Our Song

• Title Youre A Grand Old Flag
• Composer George M. Cohan
• Lyricist George M. Cohan
• Year 1906
• The Reason George M. Cohan met a Civil War
  veteran who fought at Gettysburg. Cohan noticed
  the vet held a carefully folded but ragged old
  flag. The man turned to Cohan and said, "She's a
  grand old rag." Cohan thought it was a great line
  and so named his tune "You're a Grand Old Rag."
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The Lyrics and Music
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You're a grand old flag, tho' you're torn to
rag,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 under
Red, White and Blue,Where there's never a boast
or a brag"But should auld acquaintance be
forgot,"Keep your eye on the grand old flag.
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Youre a grand old flag

• High above, over a true "home of the brave," the
  floating folds of the Star Spangled Banner
  symbolize the American way of life to
  soldiers in training for the battles that will
  bring freedom to an unhappy, wartorn world, Fort
  Knox, Ky.
• Alfred T. Palmer, photographer
• CREATED/PUBLISHED1942 June

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tho' you're torn to a rag,

• This is the first American flag to be named Old
  Glory. The flag was made in 1824 for Captain
  William Driver
• Division of the History of Technology, Armed
  Forces History
• National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
  InstitutionBehring Center

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And forever in peace may you wave.

• Raising Old Glory over Morro Castle
• J. Stuart Blackton, Albert E. Smith, Producers.
• CREATED/PUBLISHEDUnited States Edison
  Manufacturing Co., c1899.

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You're the emblem of

• Poster for art exhibition at the Art Institute of
  Chicago, November 14 to January 5, showing part
  of an American flag.
• CREATED/PUBLISHEDChicago Illinois WPA Art
  Project, 1940.

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the land I love,

• Detroit, Michigan. Wall of American flags carried
  by Boy Scouts at the Blitz Scout meeting.
• Arthur S. Siegel, photographer
• CREATED/PUBLISHED1942 July.

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The home of the free and the brave.

• Detroit, Michigan. Little girl carrying American
  flag in the Labor Day parade.
• Arthur S. Siegel, photographer
• CREATED/PUBLISHED1942 Sept.

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Ev'ry heart beats true

• Three Chinese children standing in a room,
  each holding an American flag and a Chinese
  flag.
• Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer
• CREATED/PUBLISHED1929.

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under Red, White and Blue,

• Flag - Detroit, Michigan
• Arthur Siegel, 1913-1978, photographer
• CREATED/PUBLISHED1942 July

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Where there's never a boast or a brag

• RMA flag service on the steps of New York Public
  Library, 1919 / Kinogram Pub. Corp..
• CREATED/PUBLISHED
  October 27, 1919

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"But should auld acquaintance be forgot,"

• Betsy Ross making the flag.
• Jean Louis Gerome Ferris, 1868-1930, artist
• CREATED/PUBLISHEDbetween 1900 and 1920

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Keep your eye on the grand old flag.
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