You Sing Your Country's Anthem

You sing your Country's anthem and you wave your Country's flag And of Olympic medals won by your Nation's athletes you like to have your brag But come tomorrow morning no wealthier you will be Though you have cheered on strangers to their greatest victory. They may be your countrymen and women that you cheered on to fame But to you they are strangers and all strangers are the same For a stranger is a person you cannot claim to know And in a stranger's glory wise people do not crow. When you wave your Country's colours what does that signify Could it be that you are telling us that you are not as good as I Our Nation's athletes have won many medals and your's have none to show Is one great because they can run faster though in some ways they are slow? You sing your Country's anthem and on the flag pole in your front yard you fly The colours of your Nation in hope that every passer by Will look up at the flag and say how wonderful you are Patriotism is your blindfold but the wise always see far.