Star-Spangled Banner 

Francis Scott Key

Music Ascribed to John Stafford Smith






O say can you see by the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there

O say does that Star-spangled Banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

 

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep

Where the foe's haughty host in the dread silence reposes

What is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep

As it fitfully blows half conceals half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam

In full glory reflected now shines on the stream

'Tis the Star-spangled Banner O long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

 

O thus be it ever when free men shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation

Blest with victory and peace may the heaven rescued land

Praise the Power that has made and preserved us a nation

Then conquer we must when our cause it is just

and this be our motto "In God is our trust"

And the Star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.






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