O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. No refuge could save the hireling and slaveįrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusionĪ home and a Country should leave us no more? In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair. O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!Īnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore, Australians all let us rejoice, For we are one and free We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil Our home is girt by sea Our land abounds in nature’s gifts Of beauty rich and rare In history’s page, let every stage Advance Australia Fair. ’Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream, Hail Columbia is used today in the United States as an entrance song for the Vice President (much like Hail to the Chief is for the President. Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, By the start of the 20th century, it had fallen out of favour, and in 1931 The Star Spangled Banner became the first officially proclaimed national anthem of the United States. What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,Īs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?Īnd the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, What are the lyrics to the US National Anthem, The Star. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight One of the events during his presidency was the composition of a poem called the 'The Defence of Fort McHenry' by Francis Scott Key (1779-1843). What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, Star Spangled Banner Lyrics James Madison was the 4th American President who served in office from Mato March 4, 1817. O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, Inspired by the sight of the American flag flying over Fort McHenry the.
Friederich, the music is played as it would have been heard in 1854. Francis Scott Key was a gifted amateur poet. This 19th century version (MP3) of the Star-Spangled Banner was performed on original instruments from the National Museum of American History's collection. Shortly afterward, two Baltimore newspapers published it, and by mid-October it had appeared in at least seventeen other papers in cities up and down the East Coast. A local printer issued the new song as a broadside. Nicholson who saw that the words fit the popular melody 'The Anacreontic Song', by English composer John Stafford Smith. Back in Baltimore, he completed the four verses (PDF) and copied them onto a sheet of paper, probably making more than one copy. The Star Spangled Banner 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is the national anthem of the United States.The lyrics come from Joseph H. Inspired by the sight of the American flag flying over Fort McHenry the morning after the bombardment, he scribbled the initial verse of his song on the back of a letter. Francis Scott Key was a gifted amateur poet.