Fittingly, one of Fitzgerald’s working titles for his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, was ‘Under the Red, White and Blue’. Scott Fitzgerald – who was Key’s second cousin, three times removed. star spangled banner (alto) Oh say, can you see, by the dawns early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming, Whose broad stripes. By then, his name was attached to another famous American writer, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald – better known as F. If things had been a little different, ‘ Hail, Columbia’, ‘ America the Beautiful’, or even ‘ My Country, ’Tis of Thee’ were all contenders for that honour.įrancis Scott Key was, of course, long dead by the time his poem became the lyrical basis for his country’s national anthem. This video is featured on Musicplay Online. So, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ started life as a poem called ‘The Defence of Fort M’Henry’, was written not by one of America’s leading poets of the day but by an amateur, and – despite being written in 1814 – only became the official US national anthem in 1931. Star Spangled Banner with Lyrics, Vocals, and Beautiful Photos. The Star Spangled Banner say, can you see, by the dawns early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming the shore dimly seen through. Oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air. What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight. Birds are awake and take to their wing song. Spring on the wing arrives victorious, conquering poor old winter’s gloom. 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. These words, of course, have become famous beyond the poem (or song): many people refer to the United States as the ‘land of the free’, especially. Oh, say can you see by the dawns early light. Sing a Spring Song Out in the fields so grand and glorious, oh, how the flowers burst in bloom. Throughout ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’, Francis Scott Key uses the refrain, ‘O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave’.
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