NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", a poem written on September 14, 1814, by 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the large U.S. flag, with 15 stars and 15 stripes, known as the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly above the fort during the US. victory. 

The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "To Anacreon in Heaven" (or The Anacreontic Song), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States.

LYRICS OF NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

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?

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And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;

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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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