Our Anthem

Greetings Americans,

Monday I have decided to try out for my show's show choir. Why am I telling you this, shouldn't I be posting this under my school blog? (I am by the way.) But the song we are required to sing is the Star Spangled Banner. As readers know I think America has gone down hill. (And, if you didn't, you know now.) I mean, have you ever stopped listening to the singer's voice and listened to the lyrics? Oh, yeah, did you know there's four verses to the brilliantly written song, not just the one you here at sports events? I've posted the lyrics below. Take a look.

The Star Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key
1814
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early lightWhat 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 through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet waveO'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 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 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!