X:176
T: the Star-Spangled Banner
T: (Service Version.)
C: words: Francis Scott Key
C: music: John Stafford Smith
Q: "With spirit. (" 1/4=104 ")"
N: This is version 1, for ABC software that doesn't understand crescendo/diminuendo symbols.
%R: air, waltz
B: "The Everyday Song Book", 1927
F: http://www.library.pitt.edu/happybirthday/pdf/The_Everyday_Song_Book.pdf
Z: 2017 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
F:http://roaringjelly.org/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/176-the_Star-Spangled_Banner-V1.abc	 2024-11-27 170642 UT
K: Bb
%%center Prepared for the Army and Navy song and band books, and for School and Community singing.
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w: 1.~O* say! can you see,* by the dawn's ear-ly light,       What so
w: 2.~On the shore, dim-ly seen* thro' the mists of the deep, Where the
w: 3.~O* thus be it ev-er when* free-men shall stand          Be-*
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w: proud-ly we hailed at the twi-light's last gleam-ing? Whose broad
w: foe's haught-y host in dread si-lence re-pos-es.      What is
w: tween their loved homes and the war's des-o-la-tion!  Blest with
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w: stripes and bright start, thro' the per-il-ous fight, O'er the ram-parts we
w: that which the breeze, o'er the tow-er-ing steep,     As it fit-ful-ly
w: vic-t'ry and peace, may the Heav'n-res-cued land      Praise the pow'r that hath
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w: watch'd, were so gal-lant-ly stream-ing? And the rock-ets' red glare.
w: blows, half con-ceals, half dis-clos-es? Now it catch-es the gleam
w: made and pre-served us a na-tion!        Then* con-quer we must,
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w: the bombs burst-ing in air,   Gave* proof tho' the night* that our
w: of the morn-ing's first beam, In full glo-ry re-flect-ed, now*
w: when our cause it is just,    And* this be our mot-to: In*
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w: flag was still there.  O* say, does that* Star-span-gled Ban-ner* yet*
w: shines on the stream: 'Tis the Star-span-gled* Ban-ner: O long may* it*
w: God is our trust!"     And the Star-span-gled* Ban-ner in tri-umph* shall*
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w: wave* O'er the land* of the free and the home of the brave?
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