The National Anthem Demo
Take 2
Written by Francis Scott Key
in 1814 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Sung to tune of the song
“To Anacreon in Heaven”,
composed circa 1700 by
John Stafford Smith.
Made National Anthem by
an act of U.S. Congress
on March 3, 1931.
Copyright © 1999 Timothy S. Klugh. All Rights Reserved.
Oh, 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?
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