The Star Spangled Banner Songtext
von John McCormack

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?


O, 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
O′er the land of the free
And the home of the brave