Give Us A Flag

The person who wrote the song is unknown. He obviously had very strong feelings on the subject. An obviously non-PC word has been left in since it reflects the feelings of the times. “Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters ’US,’ let him get an eagle upon his button and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pockets and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship in the United States.“ —Frederick Douglass