Federal Anthem of the United States

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Lyrics

 * Hail Columbia, happy land!
 * Hail, ye heroes, heav'n-born band,
 * Who fought and bled in freedom's cause,
 * Who fought and bled in freedom's cause,
 * And when the storm of war was gone
 * Enjoy'd the peace your valor won.
 * Let independence be our boast,
 * Ever mindful what it cost;
 * Ever grateful for the prize,
 * Let its altar reach the skies.'''

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 * Chorus
 * Firm, united let us be,
 * Rallying round our liberty,
 * As a band of brothers joined,
 * Peace and safety we shall find.

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 * Immortal patriots, rise once more,
 * Defend your rights, defend your shore!
 * Let no rude foe, with impious hand,
 * Let no rude foe, with impious hand,
 * Invade the shrine where sacred lies
 * Of toil and blood, the well-earned prize,
 * While off'ring peace, sincere and just,
 * In Heaven's we place a manly trust,
 * That truth and justice will prevail,
 * And every scheme of bondage fail.

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 * Chorus
 * Firm, united let us be,
 * Rallying round our liberty,
 * As a band of brothers joined,
 * Peace and safety we shall find.

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 * Behold the chief who now commands,
 * Once more to serve his country stands.
 * The rock on which the storm will break,
 * The rock on which the storm will break,
 * But armed in virtue, firm, and true,
 * His hopes are fixed on Heav'n and you.
 * When hope was sinking in dismay,
 * When glooms obscured Columbia's day,
 * His steady mind, from changes free,
 * Resolved on death or liberty.

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 * Chorus
 * Firm, united let us be,
 * Rallying round our liberty,
 * As a band of brothers joined,
 * Peace and safety we shall find.

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 * Sound, sound the trump of fame,
 * Let Washington's great name
 * Ring through the world with loud applause,
 * Ring through the world with loud applause,
 * Let ev'ry clime to freedom dear,
 * Listen with a joyful ear,
 * With equal skill, with God-like pow'r
 * He governs in the fearful hour
 * Of horrid war, or guides with ease
 * The happier time of honest peace.

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 * Chorus
 * Firm, united let us be,
 * Rallying round our liberty,
 * As a band of brothers joined,
 * Peace and safety we shall find.

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!