Battle Hymn of the Union

Lyrics

 * O 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;
 * 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 washed out their foul footsteps' 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 loved homes and the war's desolation.
 * Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n 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
 * O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!