Francis Scott Key The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics

The Star Spangled Banner 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 stars thru
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?



Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory
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 our motto be:  "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!