One of my favorite songs is Elton Britt’s “There’s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere.” Penned by Roberts and Darnell, Britt recorded it in 1942. It was an instant hit.
The song is sung from the perspective of a young man willing to fight for freedom. Disability, however, prevents him from enlisting.
I don’t hear this song anymore – it’s a shame.
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There’s a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
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 someday.I’d see Lincoln, Custer, Washington and Perry
and Nathan Hale and Colin Kelley 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 lived when I die.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.
There’s a Star Spangled Banner waving somewhere
in that heaven there should be a place for me.
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