American Songs - Star Spangled Banner lyrics

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,

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,

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 throughout 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 on 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 hauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion

A home and country, shall leave us no more?

Their blood was washed out their foul foot steps pollution

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or 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 e'er when free men shall stand

Between their loved homes and war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven rescued land

Praise the Pow'r that has made and preserved us a nation

And conquer we must when our cause 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.