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 & bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the rampants we watched were so gallantly streaming ~ And the rocket's red glare, the bombs burst in the 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 & 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 re-posses, 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 Spangles Banner ~ Oh how long may it wave, O'er the land of the free & the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so hauntingly swore, that the havoc of war & the battle's confusion, A home & a country should leave us no more ~ Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution ~ No refuge could save the hireling & 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 & the home of the brave.

Oh, thus be it ever, when free men shall stand ~ Between their loved home & the war's desolation ~ Blessed with victory & peace, may the heaven rescued land Praise the Power that hath made & 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 & the home of the brave.

By: Francis Scott Key