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15 Patriotic Country Songs for Fourth of July
We look at 15 patriotic country songs.
This 2016 track, from Thomas Rhett’s deluxe edition of his Tangled Up album, focuses on array of traditions and signifiers of small-town life, from red dirt roads to white pickup trucks and flags waving in the wind. However, in their own 2005-released song, penned by illustrious songwriter Tom Douglas, the composition forgoes the chest-thumping, flag-waving imagery so prevalent in perhaps the majority of centering on the concerns of Americans on both sides of the political aisle, in a still-timely message of people who hope for peace and to simply see their children grow up. In this Cash classic, the American flag bears several of its own triumphant “medals” of survival, from a hole where Washington flew it while crossing the Delaware, or a powder burn during the night Francis Scott Key watched it while writing the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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