A country is not great because a group of soldiers in a fort can survive a bombardment or forget to take the flag down".WHAT? I really can't believe the ignorance in this comment. It is about the beauty of the land, the US's best asset. Jennifer from Bellingham, Wa"I want to second the "America the Beautiful" proposal.It is the BEST- far superior to the messes that are commonly made as egotistical, stuck on themselves, so-called celebrities attempt to sing our national anthem! BTW, My Country 'Tis of Thee is also a British drinking song. I don't think there is anything wrong with putting your own touches on something as an artist and I'm sure Key wouldn't be disappointed with Madison Rising's version either. Francis Scott Key wrote the poem and shortly after that they started singing it to a British drinking song, which is what we still use. Diana from UsaI have never been a rock fan in my life (prefer classical music) but I really LOVE the Madison Rising rendition of the Star Spangled Banner! It is very stirring and patriotic.Frederic from VirginiaIt seems ironic that our two National Anthems - My Country 'Tis Of Thee and The Star-Spangled Banner - both use tunes from Britain.Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,Īnd this be our motto: "In God is our trust!"Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! O thus be it ever when free-men shall standīetween their lov'd home and the war's desolation īlest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land 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 footsteps' pollution. That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,Ī home and a country should leave us no more? O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!Īnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore 'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, 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 rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
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