He must really not like the third verse...
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![12]
And where is that band that so vauntingly sworeAs I have mentioned in other posts, this verse contains a Bible reference: "...like the slave longing for the evening shadows and the hireling waiting for his wages..." Job 7:2
In 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 nore 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.