What are all the words to the National Anthem of the United States?

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The Star Spangled Banner (The Defense of Fort McHenry) September 20, 1814 By Francis Scott Key Oh, 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? 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, now conceals, now discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on 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 NEED etc

Answered - 21 days ago at 8:33pm on May 14 2012

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About The Star-Spangled Banner

''The Star-Spangled Banner'' is the national anthem of the United States of America. It was made official by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931, and signed into law by President Herbert Hoover. The lyrics were taken from the poem ''Defense of Fort McHenry,'' written by Francis Scott Key in 1814.

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