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Words and Lyrics by
George M. Cohan
The Facts About Our Song
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Title: You’re 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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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.
You’re 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/PUBLISHED
1942 June
…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 Institution
Behring Center
And forever in peace may you wave.
• Raising Old Glory over Morro Castle
• J. Stuart Blackton, Albert E. Smith, Producers.
• CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., c1899.
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/PUBLISHED
Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project,
1940.
…the land I love,
• Detroit, Michigan. Wall of
American flags carried by Boy
Scouts at the Blitz Scout meeting.
• Arthur S. Siegel, photographer
• CREATED/PUBLISHED
1942 July.
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/PUBLISHED
1942 Sept.
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/PUBLISHED
1929.
…under Red, White and Blue,
• Flag - Detroit, Michigan
• Arthur Siegel, 1913-1978,
photographer
• CREATED/PUBLISHED
1942 July
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
"But should auld acquaintance be forgot,"
• Betsy Ross making the flag.
• Jean Louis Gerome Ferris,
1868-1930, artist
• CREATED/PUBLISHED
[between 1900 and 1920]
Keep your eye on the grand old flag.
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