Nick Carter - The Star Spangled Banner lyrics

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 home and
The war's desolation
Blest with victory 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!