"Star Spangled Banner, The" by Whitney Houston

1. 
O say can you see, 
By the dawns early light, 
What so proudly we haild 
At the twilights last gleaming? 
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, 
Thro the perilous fight, 
Oer the ramparts we watchd, 
Were so gallantly streaming? 
And the rockets red glare, 
The bombs bursting in air 
Gave proof thro the night 
That our flag was still there. 

O say, does that star-spangled 
Banner yet wave 
Oer the land of the free 
And the home of the brave. 


2. 
On the shore dimly seen 
Thro the mist of the deep, 
Where the foes haughty host 
In dread silence reposes, 
What is that which the breeze, 
Oer the towering steep, 
As it fitfully blows, 
Half conceals, half discloses? 
Now it catches the gleam 
Of the mornings first beam, 
In full glory reflected 
Now shines in the stream. 

Tis the star-spangled banner 
O long may it wave 
Oer the land of the free 
And the home of the brave. 


3. 
And where is the band 
Who so vauntingly swore, 
Mid the havoc of war 
And the battles confusion, 
A home and a country 
Theyd leave us no more? 
Their blood has washd 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 
Oer the land of the free 
And the home of the brave. 

4. 
O thus be it ever, 
When free men shall stand 
Between their loved homes 
And the wars desolation; 
Blest with victry and peace, 
May the heavn rescued land 
Praise the Power that hath made 
And preserved us a nation! 
Then conquer me 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 
Oer the land of the free 
And the home of the brave.