U.S. National Anthem "The Star
Spangled Banner"
Composed by John Stafford Smith - lyrics
Francis Scott Key
Oh, 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 thru
the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly
streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting
in air,
Gave proof thru the night that our flag was
still there.
Oh, 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 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 in the
stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may
it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of
the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out of of their foul
footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave'
From the terror of flight and the gloom of
the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth
wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of
the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n
rescued land
Praise the Power that hath 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.