Lyrics of national song of United States on Fourth of July

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national song of praise of the United States of America. The verses originate from "Safeguard of Fort M'Henry",Fourth of july a lyric composed on September 13, 1814 by the 35-year-old attorney and novice artist Francis Scott Key in the wake of seeing the assault of Fort Mc Henry by British boats of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor amid the Battle of Fort Mc Henry in the War of 1812. Key was roused by the substantial American banner, the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly over the fortress amid the American triumph.

The tune picked up fame all through the nineteenth century and groups played it amid open occasions, for example, July fourth festivals. On July 27, 1889, Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F. Fourth of july Tracy marked General Order #374, making "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official tune to be played at the raising of the banner.

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson requested that "The Star-Spangled Banner" be played at military and other suitable events. The playing of the melody two years after the fact amid the seventh-inning stretch of Game One of the 1918 World Series, and from that point amid every session of the arrangement is frequently refered to as the main case that the song of devotion was played at a baseball game, however confirm demonstrates that the "Star-Spangled Banner" was executed as right on time as 1897 at opening day services in Philadelphia and afterward all the more routinely at the Polo Grounds in New York City starting in 1898. Regardless, Fourth of july the convention of performing the national song of devotion before each ball game started in World War II.

On November 3, 1929, Robert Ripley attracted a board his syndicated toon, Ripley's Believe it or Not!, saying "Trust It or Not, America has no national anthem". In 1931, John Philip Sousa distributed his supposition in support, expressing that "it is the soul of the music that rouses" as much as it is Key's "spirit blending" words. By a law marked on March 3, 1931 by President Herbert Hoover, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was received as the national hymn of the United States of America.

Lyrics Fourth of july

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 through 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 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, 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.

O 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!

Additional Civil War period lyrics

In irateness over the begin of the American Civil War, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. added a fifth stanza to the melody in 1861 which showed up in songbooks of the time.

When our land is illumined with Liberty's smile,
If a foe from within strike a blow at her glory,
Down, down with the traitor that dares to defile
The flag of her stars and the page of her story!
By the millions unchained who our birthright have gained,
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained!
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave

While the land of the free is the home of the brave.