Words by FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

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, thro' the perilous fight,/ O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming!/ And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' 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?

On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep./ Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposing./ What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,/ As it fitfully blows, half conceals half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream';/ Tis The Star-Spangled Banner O long may it wave/ O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

O thus be it ever when free men shall stand/ Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!/ Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued land/ Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation!/ Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "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!

Dr. Joseph E. Maddy, All-American Song Book, Robbins Music Corporation, 1942, p4

Music: JOHN STAFFORD SMITH; 72-ET Harmony by RICK TAGAWA

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