There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere Lyrics - Hank Snow

There's a star spangled banner waving somewhere 

In a distant land so many miles away 

Only Uncle Sam's great heroes get to go there 

Where I wished that I could also live someday 

I'd see Lincoln Custer Washington and Perry 

Nathan Hale and Colin Kelly too 

There's a star spangled banner waving somewhere 

Waving on the land of the heroes brave and true 

In this war with its mad schemes of destruction 

Of our country fair and our sweet liberty 

By the mad dictators leaders of corruption 

Can't the US use a mountain boy like me 

God gave me the right to be a free American 

And for that precious right I'd gladly die 

There's a star spangled banner waving somewhere 

That is where I want to live when I die 

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Though I realize I'm crippled that is true sir 

Please don't judge my courage by my twisted leg 

Let me show my Uncle Sam what I can do sir 

Let me help to bring the axis down a peg 

If I do some brave deed I will be a hero 

And the hero brave is what I want to be 

There's a star spangled banner waving somewhere 

In that heaven there should be a place for me 

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5. 

WALKING THE LAST MILE 

(Jeff Hess) 

© '64 copyright control 

Walking the last mile so weary and slow 

It leads to the gallows from where I don't know 

One step every minute each minute seems as a year 

This parting is bitter when no friend is near 

If I had one wish Lawd and that could come true 

I'd wish I was pardoned and back home with you 

I'd get on my knees Lawd and if you'd forgive 

No more would I hurt you as long as I live 

(The way I go on Lawd is crashing my soul 

It's hard to be tied down in this prison hole) 

There is one regret Lawd that tortures my brain 

It's that I've been careless in causing you pain 

Walking the last mile with each step I bear 

Praying forgiveness from him way up there 

Oh please say a prayer Lawd for it's my last keep 

Please pray the great Master shows mercy on me 

Perhaps in the next world on that judgement day 

I'll find that the Master washed my sins away 

There I'll hold my head up when my soul is free 

And rest in your arms Lawd through eternity