’Tis the star spangled banner, oh! long may it wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Chorus—Oh! say, does the star spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
’Mid the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country they’d 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;