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Pulled this from Charlie Daniels' web-site.
God Bless Charlie Daniels, I think he says what we feel in both his letter, and his newest song.
Here's the full text.
Just to let you know
There are probably some of you folks out there who are wondering why we didn’t
appear on the CMT Country Freedom Concert for the Salvation Army to benefit
the victims of the September 11th Attack on America. We were announced and
scheduled and had every intention of doing the show, until we gave the CMT
folks the lyrics to a new song I had written and wanted to perform on the show.
After receiving the words they informed us that we could not do the song on the
show and when we asked them why they said that the show was a healing type
show and they were afraid that the song would offend someone. I would never do
anything to hurt the show but I knew that they had the very epitome of country
stars and didn’t particularly need us to sell tickets. With this in mind, I decided to
pull off the show for personal reasons which I would like to share with you. Let me
preface my remarks by saying that I respect CMT’s right to not allow anything
they don’t agree with to go out over their airwaves. And in all fairness, I guess
they were taking the sensibilities of the victim’s families into account. But I
respectfully and vehemently disagree with their stand. First of all, I don’t feel that
this is the time for healing. I feel that this is the time to rub salt in the wounds and
keep America focused on the job at hand. We lost almost seven thousand people
in the Trade Towers and Pentagon and we’re worrying about offending
somebody? We have seven month old babies infected with Anthrax and we’re
afraid we’ll hurt someone’s feelings? Brave Americans forced a plane down in a
field in Pennsylvania and we’re worried about ruffling someone’s feathers? We’re
sending our sons and daughters off to fight and perhaps die in a war we had
nothing to do with starting and we’re concerned about insulting somebody? I felt
to give into this political correctness would be to turn my back on the people who
lost their lives on 9 -11 and on the brave men and women who defend this country.
The title of the song is “This Ain’t No Rag It’s A Flag”, and I don’t apologize for
a word in I’ll let you all decide for yourselves:
This ain’t no rag it’s a flag and we don’t wear it on our heads. It’s a symbol of the
land where the good guys live are you listening to what I said. You’re a coward
and a fool and you broke all the rules and you wounded our American pride. Now
we’re coming with a gun and we know you’re gonna run but you can’t find no
place to hide. We’re gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound and make you
pay for the lives you stole. We’re all through talking and messing around and now
it’s time to rock and roll. These colors don’t run and we’re speaking as one when
we say united we stand. If you mess with one you mess with us all every boy, girl,
woman and man. You’ve been acting mighty rash and talking that trash but let
me give you some advice. You can crawl back in your hole like a dirty little mole
but now it’s time to pay the price. You might have shot us in the back but now you
have to face the fact that the big boy’s in the game. The lightning's been flashing
and the thunder’s been crashing and now it’s gettin ready to rain.
Chorus: This is the United States of America the land of the brave and free. We
believe in God, we believe in justice, we believe in liberty. You’ve been pulling
our chain we shoulda done something about you a long time ago. But now the
flag’s flying high and the fur’s gonna fly and now the whole world’s gonna know.
This ain’t no rag it’s a flag old glory red white and blue. The stars and stripes and
when it comes to a fight we can do what we have to do. Our people stand proud
the American crowd is faithful and loyal and tough. We’re as good as the best and
better than the rest you’re gonna find out soon enough. When you look up in the
sky and you see the eagle fly you’d better know he’s headed your way. This ain’t
no rag it’s a flag and it stands for the USA.
What do you think?
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
God Bless Charlie Daniels, I think he says what we feel in both his letter, and his newest song.
Here's the full text.
Just to let you know
There are probably some of you folks out there who are wondering why we didn’t
appear on the CMT Country Freedom Concert for the Salvation Army to benefit
the victims of the September 11th Attack on America. We were announced and
scheduled and had every intention of doing the show, until we gave the CMT
folks the lyrics to a new song I had written and wanted to perform on the show.
After receiving the words they informed us that we could not do the song on the
show and when we asked them why they said that the show was a healing type
show and they were afraid that the song would offend someone. I would never do
anything to hurt the show but I knew that they had the very epitome of country
stars and didn’t particularly need us to sell tickets. With this in mind, I decided to
pull off the show for personal reasons which I would like to share with you. Let me
preface my remarks by saying that I respect CMT’s right to not allow anything
they don’t agree with to go out over their airwaves. And in all fairness, I guess
they were taking the sensibilities of the victim’s families into account. But I
respectfully and vehemently disagree with their stand. First of all, I don’t feel that
this is the time for healing. I feel that this is the time to rub salt in the wounds and
keep America focused on the job at hand. We lost almost seven thousand people
in the Trade Towers and Pentagon and we’re worrying about offending
somebody? We have seven month old babies infected with Anthrax and we’re
afraid we’ll hurt someone’s feelings? Brave Americans forced a plane down in a
field in Pennsylvania and we’re worried about ruffling someone’s feathers? We’re
sending our sons and daughters off to fight and perhaps die in a war we had
nothing to do with starting and we’re concerned about insulting somebody? I felt
to give into this political correctness would be to turn my back on the people who
lost their lives on 9 -11 and on the brave men and women who defend this country.
The title of the song is “This Ain’t No Rag It’s A Flag”, and I don’t apologize for
a word in I’ll let you all decide for yourselves:
This ain’t no rag it’s a flag and we don’t wear it on our heads. It’s a symbol of the
land where the good guys live are you listening to what I said. You’re a coward
and a fool and you broke all the rules and you wounded our American pride. Now
we’re coming with a gun and we know you’re gonna run but you can’t find no
place to hide. We’re gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound and make you
pay for the lives you stole. We’re all through talking and messing around and now
it’s time to rock and roll. These colors don’t run and we’re speaking as one when
we say united we stand. If you mess with one you mess with us all every boy, girl,
woman and man. You’ve been acting mighty rash and talking that trash but let
me give you some advice. You can crawl back in your hole like a dirty little mole
but now it’s time to pay the price. You might have shot us in the back but now you
have to face the fact that the big boy’s in the game. The lightning's been flashing
and the thunder’s been crashing and now it’s gettin ready to rain.
Chorus: This is the United States of America the land of the brave and free. We
believe in God, we believe in justice, we believe in liberty. You’ve been pulling
our chain we shoulda done something about you a long time ago. But now the
flag’s flying high and the fur’s gonna fly and now the whole world’s gonna know.
This ain’t no rag it’s a flag old glory red white and blue. The stars and stripes and
when it comes to a fight we can do what we have to do. Our people stand proud
the American crowd is faithful and loyal and tough. We’re as good as the best and
better than the rest you’re gonna find out soon enough. When you look up in the
sky and you see the eagle fly you’d better know he’s headed your way. This ain’t
no rag it’s a flag and it stands for the USA.
What do you think?
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
