Southland Tales movie - The Star Spangled Banner lyrics

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Song by Rebekah del Rio & The Section Quartet<br /><br>

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light<br>

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?<br>

Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,<br>

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?<br>

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,<br>

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.<br>

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave<br>

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<br>

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On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,<br>

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,<br>

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,<br>

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?<br>

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,<br>

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:<br>

'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave<br>

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<br>

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And where is that band who so vauntingly swore<br>

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,<br>

A home and a country should leave us no more!<br>

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.<br>

No refuge could save the hireling and slave<br>

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:<br>

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave<br>

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<br>

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Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand<br>

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!<br>

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land<br>

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.<br>

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,<br>

And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."<br>

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave<br>

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<br>

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