#THE WORDS 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 WORDS 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? 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 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, 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. Igor Stravinskys first of his four 1941 arrangements of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' led to an incident on Januwith the Boston police, but 'Boston Police Commissioner Thomas F. O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, Bing Crosby recorded the song on Mafor Decca Records.He also recorded it as a reading of the poem with a musical accompaniment on August 15, 1946. 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. 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. 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. Francis Scott Key was a gifted amateur poet.