The Star-Spangled Banner

- Francis Scott Key, 1814

O say can you see by the dawn’s early light

What so proudly we hailed by the twilight’s last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight

O’er the ramparts we watch’d 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?