Star Spangled Banner Lyrics - Blue Meanies

Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light 

What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? 

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight 

O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? 

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air 

Gave proof thro' 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 thro' 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 on 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 wash'd 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 lov'd homes and the war's desolation 

Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued land 

Praise the pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation 

Then conquer we must when our cause 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