There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere

Performed by Elton Britt
Recorded March 9, 1942
Written by Paul Roberts and Shelby Darnell

[verse 1]
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 wish that I could also live some day
I'd see Lincoln, Custer, Washington and Perry
And Nathan Hale and Colin Kelley too!

[chorus 1]
There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
Waving o'er the land of heroes brave and true.

[verse 2]
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 U.S. 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

[chorus 2]
There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
That is where I want to live when I die.

[verse 3]
Tho I realize I am 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 great deed I will be a hero
And a hero brave is what I want to be

[chorus 3]
There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
In that heaven there should be a place for me.