#273 - The Star Spangled Banner

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• Composer:
  • John Stafford Smith

    • #273 - The Star Spangled Banner
    • #2071 - America / The Star Spangled Banner

    (1750-1836), mid-1760s
• Also known as:
  • The Anacreontic Song
  • To Anacreon in Heaven
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• Incipit: 11351321345532176711531
• Condensed Incipit: 13513213453217671531
• Incipit: 5313513213455532176711531 (traditional)
• Condensed Incipit: 5313513213453217671531 (traditional)
• Lyrics:
  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 starts, 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
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
  
  On the shore dimly seen through 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,
  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!
  
  Oh, thus be it ever, when free men shall stand
  Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
  Blessed with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
  Praise the pow'r 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.!
  
  
  • Francis Scott Key

    • #273 - The Star Spangled Banner
    • #2071 - America / The Star Spangled Banner

    (1779–1843), 1814
• See also:
  • #2071 - America / The Star Spangled Banner