Somewhere There Is A Star Spangled Flag
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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 Kelly, too. There's a Star-Spangled Banner waving somewhere, Waving o'er the land of 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 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. There's a Star-Spangled Banner waving somewhere, That is where I want to live when I die.
Though I realize I'm crippled, that is true,
sir,
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About
One of the most continuingly popular songwriters
in the country genre, from the 1920s until his death
in 1955, was the "event" composer par excellence,
Bob Miller ( Shelby
Darnell) . Miller was
not of country origin; he was born in 1895, in Memphis,
Tennessee. Memphis, however, provided him with a
social milieu in which he could obtain a close acquaintance
with southern melodies. In the early twenties Miller
played the piano for a dance band called the Idlewild
Orchestra, which performed on the steamer Idlewild
on the Mississippi River. In 1928 he moved to New
York where he worked as an arranger for the Irving
Berlin Company before establishing his own musical
concern, the Bob Miller Publishing Company. Although
he composed numerous blues and popular tunes, the
most important items in his repertory ov over seven
thousand songs were the hillbilly items. In the
decades following the 1920s Miller produced scores
of lucrative and lastingly popular compositions,
including the well-known "Eleven
Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat"; the prison
song which has inspired countless others, "Twenty-One
Years"; ...and the World War II hit "There's
a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere."