Posted on 06/07/2010 1:48:48 AM PDT by Puzzleman
(Excerpt) Read more at thehopeforamerica.com ...
Thank you for pointing out that it is the 4th and final stanza.
Incidentally, in that youtube, I also sing the third verse that is rarely rarely sung because it is anti British.
See also my Stars and Stripes played on a digital piano.
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Forgotten?
Not by me.
The first stanza, the one played at sporting events and madly clapped to, ends in a question.
We used to sing all the verses at the beginning of our quarterly executive committee meetings of our county Republican party...
Wouldn’t it be a shock to the nation to hear the WHOLE thing at a SuperBowl, or World Series game???
I seriously doubt we’d hear it at an NBA finals game as well...
Certainly not at any MLS game in this country...I know what would be sung with tremendous gusto there...
Absolutely! It is the second stanza that is the answer. The third stanza mocks the British (it was the War of 1812 afterall), and the final stanza expresses hope for the future, another reason that they invoke the Lord in that stanza.
Not hardly forgotten, we sing the 4th at Church every Sunday.
WIKIPEDIA:
In indignation over the start of the Civil War, Oliver Wendell Holmes added a fifth stanza to the song in 1861 which appeared in songbooks of the era.
When our land is illumined with liberty’s smile,
If a foe from within strikes a blow at her glory,
Down, down with the traitor that tries to defile
The flag of the stars, and the page of her story!
By the millions unchained,
Who their birthright have gained
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained;
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave,
While the land of the free is the home of the brave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
All FOUR verses:
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed 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 rockets’ red glare, the bombs 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?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
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 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!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
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,
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory 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’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
sfl
I just googled “sfl” and still didn’t learn what it means. Could you so enlighten me?
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I saw this yesterday and it was really good.
When I was learning shorthand in high school I would have never imagined I’d be learning sfl, lol, roflmao etc. I have learned the LOL really well though.
It’s just a quick reference to bookmark an article so I can find it later
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