All Believer Hymn Book
Hymn 412 THE STAR SLANGLED BANNER Lyrics
1. Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaning?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly steaming?
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ the night our flag was still there.
Oh, say, does that star-spangled Banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
2. On the shore, dimly seen thro’ mists of the deep,
Where the foes’ 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 on the stream;
“Tis the star-spangled Banner, oh, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
3. 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 watched 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 triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
4. Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation;
Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven 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-spangle Banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.