![]() ![]() ![]() Key took the popular drinking song, "Anacreon in Heaven," which had been used for many patriotic songs of the day, and turned it into an anthem: In Georgetown, Maryland, a banquet honoring Stephen Decatur and the other heroes celebrated the victory with a song written by lawyer Francis Scott Key. Let us not forget his earlier verses same poet, same music, previous war written nine years earlier: The Tripolitan war lives on not only in the Marine hymn, but also in other songs. Navigation: use the links below to view more comments. ![]() TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism Culture/Society Editorial O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,Īnd this be our motto: "In God is our trust."Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall standīetween their loved homes and the war's desolation!īlest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land 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 wiped 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 In full glory reflected now shines on 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? Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, ![]() 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. O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?Īnd the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, ![]()
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