- THE LYRICS TO THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER SONG FULL
- THE LYRICS TO THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER SONG PROFESSIONAL
- THE LYRICS TO THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER SONG FREE
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. No refuge could save the hireling and slaveįrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusionĪ home and a Country should leave us no more? O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!Īnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore, ’Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
THE LYRICS TO THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER SONG FULL
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream, Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,Īs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? The song’s name came about due to a brave music printer who took the liberty of changing the title to The Star-Spangled Banner. Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust. On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, 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 Oer the. O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?Īnd the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, Defence of Fort MHenry (Star Spangled Banner) Lyrics O say can you see by the dawns early light Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous.
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, Friederich, the music is played as it would have been heard in 1854. This 19th century version (MP3) of the Star-Spangled Banner was performed on original instruments from the National Museum of American History's collection. Shortly afterward, two Baltimore newspapers published it, and by mid-October it had appeared in at least seventeen other papers in cities up and down the East Coast. Many sets of lyrics have been written to the melody that Key chose for his verses that eventually became our national anthem. A local printer issued the new song as a broadside. Back in Baltimore, he completed the four verses (PDF) and copied them onto a sheet of paper, probably making more than one copy. Inspired by the sight of the American flag flying over Fort McHenry the morning after the bombardment, he scribbled the initial verse of his song on the back of a letter.
THE LYRICS TO THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER SONG PROFESSIONAL
But Clague gives far more attention to the antislavery side of Key’s complicated ledger: his regular denouncement of slavery as “a great moral and political evil” his professional record of supporting Black men, women and children who were seeking freedom in the courts, including a successful effort to free 131 people held captive aboard an illegal slave ship and his freeing of many of his own enslaved people during his lifetime.Francis Scott Key was a gifted amateur poet. He acknowledges that the Maryland native owned more than a dozen enslaved people that he co-founded and passionately supported the American Colonization Society (whose goal of shipping free Black Americans to West Africa was vehemently condemned by Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and other prominent abolitionists) and that his aggressive and legally flawed prosecution of a local abolitionist helped trigger the Washington City “race riot” of 1835, when a White mob attacked Black churches, schools, restaurants and businesses. On Key himself, Clague takes a moderate position.
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