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The Star-Spangled Banner (view source)
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'''The Star-Spangled Banner''' is the current [[national anthem]] of the [[United States of America]]. The poem (lyrics) was written by [[Francis Scott Key]], and the melody came from an old English song. Key wrote the lyrics while aboard the [[British]] ship HMS Minden the day after witnessing the bombardment of [[Fort McHenry]] by the British during the [[War of 1812]].
'''The Star-Spangled Banner''' is the current [[national anthem]] of the [[United States of America]]. The poem (lyrics) was written by [[Francis Scott Key]], and the melody came from an old English song. Key wrote the lyrics while aboard the [[British]] ship HMS Minden the day after witnessing the bombardment of [[Fort McHenry]] by the British during the [[War of 1812]].
[[Category:National Anthem|Star-Spangled Banner]]
[[Category:National Anthem|Star-Spangled Banner]]
The most commonly used section is the first verse, the words of which are:
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?