 you'd be hard-pressed to find a more patriotic American than Johnny Cash. And he recorded three albums that featured nothing but patriotic songs. He was so well-versed in American history, he was called on many times by American universities to lecture and discuss our past with students. But he was also well aware of our mistakes and our failures. And he spoke and sang about that, too, as you'll hear in this song called The Ballad of Ira Hayes.