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O, say can you see by the dawn’s early light |ye - through
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming? |by
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, |bright stars and broad stripes -
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? clouds of the
And the rocket’s red glare,
The bomb bursting in air, |bombs
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?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, |On
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? |now conceals, now discloses
Now it catches the gleam
Of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: |on
‘Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore |are the foes / are the hosts -
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, sweepingly
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution. |This - his
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
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

O, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand |And - foemen
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation! |homes - war’s
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power 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 |O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!