Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, MAY THE HEAVEN-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!
Note the caps, ye FReeper atheists and evolutionists masquerading as patriots. In these politically correct times, no wonder we never hear these other verses of the national anthem.
Truer words were never spoken!
The last verse would be the most appropriate if only one verse is sung. However, it would run into the same objection as the 1954 amendment to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Long my favorite verse of the song.
I'm not sure what it has to do with "FReeper atheists and evolutionists," who are surely not masquerading as patriots, or they wouldn't be here.
It may well be some kind of offense to publically sing or display verse 4. My only problem is I can't find a way to sing it in the timbre and tempo of verse 1.