The Star-Spangled Banner

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The Star-Spangled Banner Words by Francis Scott
Key Music by John Stafford Smith
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Oh say can you see, by the dawns early light,
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What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last
gleaming,
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Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the
perilous fight,
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Oer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly
streaming?
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The bombs bursting in air,
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Gave proof through the night that our flag was
still there.
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Oh say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave
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Oer the land of the free and the home of the
brave?
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Stanza 2. On the shore, dimly seen thru the mists
of the deep, Where the foes haughty host in
dread silence reposes, What is that which the
breeze, oer the towering steep, As it fitfully
blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it
catches the gleam of the mornings first beam, In
full glory reflected now shines on the stream
Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it
wave Oer the land of the free and the home of
the brave!
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Stanza 3. And where is that band who so
vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the
battles 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 Oer
the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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Stanza 4. Oh, thus be it ever, when free men
shall stand Between their loved homes and the
wars desolation! Blest with victry and peace,
may the heavn-rescued land Praise the Powr 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 Oer
the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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Fort McHenry Today
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The actual Star-Spangled Banner is preserved in
Washington, D.C.
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Francis Scott Key
wrote the poem during the bombardment of Fort
McHenry.
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Compiled by Monica Smith Gelinas, March 2005, to
celebrate the National Anthem Project and in
honor of U.S. Army Specialist Scott D. Gelinas.