The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
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, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
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, through 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?
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 fully 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.
source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/n/nationalanthemlyrics/usanationalanthemlyrics.html
The lyrics come from "Defense of Fort McHenry",
a poem written on September 14, 1814, by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur
poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by
British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of
Baltimore in the War of 1812.
The problem other Left-wingers say they are having is with
the following lyrics toward the end of the anthem that is never sung: “No
refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: “
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: “
Black Lives Matters propaganda inspired San Francisco 49ers
quarterback Colin Kaeperinck to wear BLM soxs and kneel rather than stand for
the National Anthem. BLM is protesting Police who shoot Black men. Police
responded they only shoot in self-defense and not just Blacks. Other NFL
players joined in and fans sided with the Police and fans are now boycotting
the NFL games. Trump warned the NFL that they were killing their own business.
This irreconcilable debate will consume 50% of the news cycle for months along
with Bolshevik the statue removal and campus protests.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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