Lyrics Star Spangled Banner is written by Francis Scott Key is the national anthem of The United States of America. He was an American lawyer, author, and poet from Frederick, Maryland. He was born on 1st August 1779 and died on 11th January 1843. His father, John Ross, was a lawyer, a commissioned officer in the Continental Army, and a judge of English descent. This song is part of the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry". He wrote this song when he witnessed the bombing by British ships of the Royal Navy at Fort McHenry in 1812. John Stafford Smith composed this song. The song gained official status as the national anthem under President Herbert Hoover more than a century later.

Lyricist: Francis Scott Key

Composer: John Stafford Smith

Lyrics Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say, can you see

By the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hail'd

At 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 rocket's red glare

The bombs bursting in air

Gave proof through the night

That our flag was still there

O 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 full glory reflected now shines in the stream,

'Tis the star-spangled banner - O 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 wash'd out their foul footstep's 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.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand

Between their lov'd 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 preserv'd 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. 

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Star Spangled Banner Song

Credits

Song: Star Spangled Banner

Lyricist: Francis Scott Key

Composer: John Stafford Smith

Adopted: 3rd March 1931

Editor: Ranjit Dandasena