The Star Spangled Banner - Traditional | Guitar Chords | VChords

[Verse 1]
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O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
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What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
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Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
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O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
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And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
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Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
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O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
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O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

[Verse 2]
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F      Bb       F  Gm   D           Gm       C   F
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
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Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
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What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
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As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
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Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
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In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
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'Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave
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O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

[Verse 3]
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F         Bb      F    Gm  D  Gm      C  F
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
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That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
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A home and a country, should leave us no more?
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Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
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No refuge could save the hireling and slave
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From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
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And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
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O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

[Verse 4]
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F Bb      F  Gm D        Gm      C     F
O thus be it e_ver, when freemen shall stand
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Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
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Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
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Praise the Power that hath made and pre-served us a nation!
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Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
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And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'
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And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
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O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!