{"id":2922,"date":"2011-07-03T23:53:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T05:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2011-07-03T23:53:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T05:53:56","slug":"the-star-spangled-banner-the-other-verses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/03\/the-star-spangled-banner-the-other-verses\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Star Spangled Banner \u2014 The Other Verses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Star Spangled Banner<\/a> is one of the most well-known songs in the US. It is after all our National Anthem. But did you know that what we hear sung before a baseball game is actually just the first verse of a much longer song?<\/p>\n

Verse 1:<\/em><\/strong>
\nOh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
\nWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
\nWhose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
\nO’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
\nAnd the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
\nGave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
\nOh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Verse 2:<\/em><\/strong>
\nOn the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
\nWhere the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
\nWhat is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
\nAs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
\nNow it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
\nIn full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
\n‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/em><\/p>\n

Verse 3:<\/em><\/strong>
\nAnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore
\nThat the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
\nA home and a country should leave us no more!
\nTheir blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
\nNo refuge could save the hireling and slave
\nFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/em><\/p>\n

Verse 4:<\/em><\/strong>
\nOh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
\nBetween their loved home and the war’s desolation!
\nBlest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
\nPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
\nThen conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
\nAnd this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other three verses aren’t quite as, um, nice or politically correct as the first, which may be part of the reason they aren’t sung often and thus not as well known, but they hold a lot of meaning, and reflect more fully the Christian faith that was prevalent among the people in days past who first sung it. The gentleman in this video apparently hadn’t heard of the other three verses but learned verse 4, thinking it was the second of two verses. He does have a great singing voice.<\/p>\n