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 thro’ the perilous fight | |
| O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? | |
| And the rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air | 5 |
| Gave proof thro’ 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? | |
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CHORUS Oh, say, does the Star Spangled Banner yet wave | |
| O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? | 10 |
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| On the shore, dimly seen thro’ the mist 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, | 15 |
| 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.—CHO. | |
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| And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, | |
| ’Mid the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, | 20 |
| A home and a country they’d leave us no more? | |
| Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution. | |
| No refuge could save the hireling and slave | |
| From terror of flight or the gloom of the grave; | |
| And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave | 25 |
| O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.—CHO. | |
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| 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 Heaven-rescued land | |
| Praise the Power that made and preserved us a nation! | 30 |
| 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.—CHO. | |
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