O say, can you sing our national anthem?Surveys have shown that many Americans don’t know the words to our national anthem. The National Anthem Project is going to cities across the country to reteach the words to people.
If you tried to sing The Star Spangled Banner and got a bit muddled in the middle, here’s how the first stanza goes:
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 rocket’s 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?
Happy Independence Day! And if you would like to sing the other stanzas in our national anthem, go to www.thenationalanthemproject.org.
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