The Star Spangled Banner

The Star Spangled Banner - Robert Shaw Chorale

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

Over 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

Over 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 over 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 on the stream

This the star spangled banner oh long may it wave

Over 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 heaven 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

Over the land of the free and the home of the brave