THE FLAGMAKER, 1775
from SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD
Music and Lyrics by
JASON ROBERT BROWN
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With the guns flar - ing and the
drums pound - ing, there’s no hope of get - ting
rest. With the lights glar - ing and the
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calls sound - ing and the clench - ing in your
chest... When the man’s in bat - tle, and the
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ba - by’s rat - tle on - ly makes you more de - pressed, the
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wise wom -an does what she knows: If it’s fight-ing, she fights; if it’s sew - ing, she sews. When the
colla voce, rubato
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ten-sion in - side o-ver-flows and goes too far, one more
star, one more stripe, to es - cape your lone - ly bed. One more
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star, one more stripe. Join the blue, the white, and red. One more
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star, one more stripe, as you pray your child’s not
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dead... With the
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With a beat
roof leak - ing, and the walls wet - ter, and the
night as black as
pitch. With the wind shriek-ing, and his
like an echo
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last let - ter says he’s fight - ing in a
ditch. Then the can - dle flick-ers and the
riv - er bick-ers, Whatelse can you do but
stitch one more
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star, one more stripe, ’til you
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feel the ris - ing sun? One more
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star, one more stripe, ’til this
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fool - ish - ness is done. One more
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star, one more stripe. Who’ll be wait - ing when we’ve
won? Grab a
nee - dle, grab a thim - ble if it’s all that keeps you sane. Think of
free-dom as a sym - bol, think of jus - tice as a - gain! Think of
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life with in - de - pen - dence, think of mus - kets and bri - gades, think of
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tak - ing the op - pres - sors, think of ban - ners and pa - rades! When the
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gate creaks and the paint cracks and the cat cries and the night crawls, raise a
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flag! Raise a flag! Raise a
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flag ’til you’re free!! One more
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star, one more stripe, ’til this blood - shed’s fin - ’lly through! One more
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star, one more stripe ’til they come back home to you! One more
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star, one more stripe, when there’s
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noth - ing you can do!
If they take all the things that de -
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fine what you were and are… one more...
star...
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