Star Spangled Banner - US National Anthem

Lyrics by Francis Scott Key in 1814

Music attributed to John Stafford Smith, a British composer and church organist, originally written for "The Anacreontic Song" in London in 1780

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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