![]() ![]() ![]() The first verse of “The Star-Spangled Banner” is widely recognized and often sung, but the full song has four verses. The poem was later set to the tune of the English song “To Anacreon in Heaven.” ![]() The lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner” are based on Key’s eyewitness account of the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British during the war. It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812 and was officially adopted as the national anthem in 1931 by an act of Congress. Blest with vict'ry 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.“The Star-Spangled Banner” is the national anthem of the United States. O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation. 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. ![]() 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, O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.Īnd 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. 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 rocket's 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? ![]()
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