"The Flagmaker, 1775" - Songs for a New World [Karaoke/Instrumental]

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KARAOKE/INSTRUMENTAL
Music by Jason Robert Brown
Based on the orchestrations by Jason Robert Brown and Brian Besterman

Made in Logic Pro X, c. Apple
Arranged and orchestrated by EJM Instrumentals

Feel free to use for covers, concerts, etc. Just credit the writers and myself!

All rights reserved to original composers, orchestrators, producers, etc. Thank you! Have fun singing!

LYRICS:
With the guns flaring
And drums pounding
There's no hope of getting rest

With the lights glaring
And calls sounding
And the clenching in your chest

When the man's in battle
And the baby's rattle
Only makes you more depressed

The wise woman does what she knows
If it's fighting she fights
If it's sewing she sews
When the tension inside
Overflows and goes too far

One more star, one more stripe
To escape your lonely bed
One more star, one more stripe
Join the blue, the white and red
One more star, one more stripe
As you pray your child's not dead

With the roof leaking
And walls wetter
And the night as black as pitch

With the wind shrieking
And his last letter
Says his fighting in a ditch

Then the candle flickers
And the river bickers
What else can you do but stitch

One more star, one more stripe
Til you feel the rising sun
One more star, one more stripe
Til this foolishness is done
One more star, one more stripe
We'll be waiting when we've won

Grab a needle, grab a thimble
If it's all that keeps you sane
Think of freedom as a symbol
Think of justice as a game
Think of life with independence
Think of muskets and brigades
Think of taking the oppressors
Think of banners and parades

When the gate creaks
And the paint cracks
And the cat cries
And the night falls
Raise a flag
Raise a flag
Raise a flag til you're free

One more star, one more stripe
Til this bloodshed's finally through
One more star, one more stripe
Til they come back home to you
One more star, one more stripe
When there's nothing you can do

If they take all the things
That define what you were,
And are
One more star