Lyrics

The National Anthem
And Our Flag Was STILL THERE!

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 rockets’ 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.

Author of the Lyrics: The lyrics are originally from “Defence of Fort McHenry”, a poem written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, and the music came from a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society.