The Star-Spangled Banner

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• 2F32 - Zu Ehren von Murphy
• HABF16

Künstler

• John Stafford Smith

Veröffentlichung

• 1778

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
  Thru 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
  Thru the mist 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!
  
  Oh! 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!

Wissenswertes

• 1814 schrieb Francis Scott Key den Text zu der alten Melodie.
• 1931 wurde dieses Lied zu amerikanischen Nationalhymne.