Posted on 07/04/2011 9:00:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
This is awesome
This has been around for awhile...but IT NEVER GETS OLD!!!
Thank you, Sir!
I have never seen it, but it was uploaded over a year ago. There are almost 61/2 million views
Excellent.
Thanks.
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation.
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’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Thanks for posting! My eyes are full of tears!
Having a hard time believing Francis Scott Key wrote this. The pentameter is all wrong. I’m sure that even song writers of the 18th century would cringe at the awkwardness of this “second verse”.
That being said, I love his patriotism and his clear. strong and beautiful voice. That’s what the Tea Party brings. God bless him and all the rest of us who “find teir voice” and sing their songs.
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 rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, 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 in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh 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!
Oh! 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!
Great find
And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeKeen observers should note the Bible reference: "Like a slave, he seeks the shade; like a hireling, he waits for his pay" (Job 7:2).
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.
Thank you for posting the video...I am know able to view them (trying a new on-line source).
Could Key have had the soaring, and admittedly difficult tune we use now in mind? The popular story, at least, is that it was borrowed from an old drinking song, “To Anacreon In Heaven.” (Of which, amazingly for a song so old, the author is known — John Stafford Smith. He must have thought it great sport to punk a roomful of besotted Englishmen trying to sing it. If you passed out in the attempt, you had had too much wine. Now it challenges patrons of ballparks from coast to coast.) Anyhow, the verse has to be squeezed with a vise to fit into the tune, but fit it was made to do.
Thanks for posting the verse. I know the words by heart, learned them in second grade.
What a shame on this Independence Day that most of our children have been deprived of our great culture and tradition. And most adults are totally ignorant and brainwashed by the culture.
Can we even sing the great Irving Berlin song “God Bless America” anymore without the ACLU on our back?
Time to take it back before it’s really too late!
Awesome lyrics, awesome voice.
What is so sad about the Youtube video is that it emphasizes the insidious lie of how our highly-flaunted diversity represents our national strength.
I only saw a bunch of honkies of European ancestry.
I love the full version.
Funny thing though - there are words about “conquering when we must” but I see no triumphant words about nation-building.
Sign that man up as a motivational speaker.
Damn!
Happy Birthday America
It’s my favorite stanza of the National Anthem.
Would that fit into a Facebook profile?
Same for me, and you are welcome
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