US National Anthem (Star Sprangled Banner)
US National Anthem, Star Sprangled Banner, child-friendly version.
Star Sprangled Banner is not really a nursery rhyme, but it is never too early to start practising singing the national anthem, is it?
Star Sprangled Banner was actually written in 1814 by Francis Scott. But it was not adopted as the official US national anthem before 1931.
Below you can see the lyrics, and some videos with child-friendly versions of Star Sprangled Banner. So what are you waiting for? I't about time to teach the national anthem, isn't is?
Tip: Star Sprangled Banner is a quite long and dramatic song. Maybe it is enough singing the first verse with your kids?
Don't you remember the "Star Sprangled Banner" tune? You can listen to it at the bottom of this page...
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?
And the rockets' red glare,
The bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night,
That our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled
Banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free,
And the home of the brave?
Want more? Verses 2, 4 and 4:
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's 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 in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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 washed 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,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n 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-spangled banner in triumph shall wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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