Star-Spangled Banner, The [Anthemic]

[verse 1] O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed… at the twilight's last gleaming– [verse 2] Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight… o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? [pre-chorus 1] And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night… that our flag was still there, [chorus 1] O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave… o'er the land of the free… and the home of the brave? [verse 3] On the shore dimly seen… through the mists of the deep… where the foe's haughty host, in dread silence, reposes, [verse 4] What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, as it fitfully blows, half-conceals half-discloses? [pre-chorus 2] Now it catches the gleam… of the morning's first beam, in full glory reflected… now shines in the stream. [chorus 2] 'Tis the star-spangled banner– o! long may it wave… o'er the land of the free… and the home of the brave! [verse 5] And where is that band… who so vauntingly swore… that the havoc of war… and the battle's confusion– [verse 6] A home and a Country– should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out… their foul footstep's pol-lution. [pre-chorus 3] No refuge could save… the hireling and slave… from the terror of flight… or the gloom of the grave, [chorus 3] And the star-spangled banner, in triumph, doth wave… o'er the land of the free… and the home of the brave. [verse 7] O thus be it ever when… freemen shall stand… between their loved home… and the war's desolation! [verse 8] Blessed with vict'ree and peace… may the heav'n rescued land… praise the pow'r that hath made… and preserved us a nation! [pre-chorus 4] Then conquer, we must, when our cause– it is just– and this, be our motto: "(In God is our trust!)" [chorus 4] And the star-spangled banner, in triumph, shall wave… o'er the land of the free… and the home of the brave.