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The Star-Spangled Banner

Aretha Franklin

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The Star-Spangled Banner

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Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early lightWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fightO 'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streamingAnd the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in airGave proof through the night that our flag was still there!Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?On the shore dimly seen, through the mists of the deepWhere the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposesWhat is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steepAs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beamIn fully glory reflected, now shines on the stream'Tis the star-spangled bannerOh, long may it wave o'er the land of the free aNd the home of the braveAnd where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc of war and the battle's confusionA home and a country should leave us no more?Their blood has vanished out their foul footstep's pollutionNo refuge could save the hireling and slaveFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the graveAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall standBetween their loved home and the war's desolation!Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued landPraise the Power that has made and preserved us a nationThen conquer we must, when our cause it is justAnd this be our motto: In God is our trustAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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