Well my friends as we approach a 4th of July weekend. I was thinking about our Star Spangled Banner. Do you know all the words? They say 71% of Americans think they know all the lyrics to our national anthem. Meaning just the first verse that we sing, not the other three verses. I myself had to look them up. There’s also been mix ups on the correct words when singing the National Anthem. Some think the lyrics include the word “over” or the word “or” spelled O-R, then you do actually know the right lyrics. It’s “O’ER the land of the free,” spelled O-E-R with an apostrophe. Another lyric people mess up a lot is, “Whose broad stripes and bright stars.” It’s “broad,” and not “brought.” Have a safe and Happy 4th of July weekend.
Our Full National Anthem
“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 thru the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof thru the night that our flag was still there
Oh, 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! Oh 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 of of their foul footsteps’ pollution
No refuge could save the hireling and slave’
From the terror of flight and 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
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 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.”
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