Star Spangled Banner

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 rocket's 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

For 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

Their foul footsteps’ 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 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!