![]() ![]() Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,Īnd this be our motto: "In God is our trust. Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! O thus be it ever, when freemen shall standīetween their loved homes and the war's desolation.īlest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n 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 washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,Ī 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 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 Original Question: Are there any good alternatives to the Star Spangled Banner as a national anthem Lyrics: America the Beautiful For amber waves of grain. O'er the ramparts we watched, 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 hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, Although the national anthem consists of four verses, on almost every occasion only the first verse is sung. As a song, renamed The Star-Spangled Banner, it became a well-known US patriotic song and was made the official US national anthem in 1931. The Star-Spangled Banner (Defence of Fort MHenry) Lyrics: O say can you see by the dawns early light / What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last. The Star Spangled-Banner was not a poem set to a melody years later. The poem was later set to a popular British tune composed for a London gentlemen's club. Francis Scott Key intended his verses to be song lyrics, not poetry. ![]() Key was inspired by the huge "Star-Spangled Banner" flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812 (1812-15) against the British. Fittingly, one of Fitzgerald’s working titles for his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, was ‘Under the Red, White and Blue’.The lyrics or words of the US national anthem are from the poem Defence of Fort M'Henry, written by Francis Scott Key in 1814. Scott Fitzgerald – who was Key’s second cousin, three times removed. ![]() By then, his name was attached to another famous American writer, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald – better known as F. If things had been a little different, ‘ Hail, Columbia’, ‘ America the Beautiful’, or even ‘ My Country, ’Tis of Thee’ were all contenders for that honour.įrancis Scott Key was, of course, long dead by the time his poem became the lyrical basis for his country’s national anthem. So, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ started life as a poem called ‘The Defence of Fort M’Henry’, was written not by one of America’s leading poets of the day but by an amateur, and – despite being written in 1814 – only became the official US national anthem in 1931. These words, of course, have become famous beyond the poem (or song): many people refer to the United States as the ‘land of the free’, especially. Throughout ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’, Francis Scott Key uses the refrain, ‘O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave’. ![]()
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