Before the last post, we will continue today our special and new series of National Anthems of The World, with the first edition, here at Musica in Extenso.
The music was written by composer John Stafford Smith and the lyrics by Francis Scott Key. A really beautiful and grandious anthem, for a great nation! Vivat America!
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?
Enjoy! - Editor-in-Chief
