The Star-Spangled Banner.

                    The Star-Spangled Banner
                 Words by Francis Scott Key 1780
                  Music by John Stafford Smith

         Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light,
    What so prodly 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 right 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 through the mists of the deep,
     Where the foe's haughtly 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 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 homes and the war's desolation;
    Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
  Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us as a nation.
          Then 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.