The Star-Spangled Banner
Nationalhymne
Star-Spangled Banner
Diese Flagge mit 15 Sternen und Streifen wehte zur Entstehungszeit der Nationalhymne.
The Star-Spangled Banner ist seit dem 3. März 1931 die offizielle Nationalhymne der USA.
Den Text "The Star-Spangled Banner" schrieb Francis Scott Key am 14. September 1814. Der Grund für seine Aufzeichnungen war seine Erleichterung darüber, dass am Tag nach den britischen Angriffen auf Fort McHenry bei Baltimore noch immer die amerikanische Flagge wehte.
Die Melodie stammt vom englischen Trinklied um 1800 "To Anacreon in Heaven" von John Stafford Smith. Ab 1916 spieten die amerikanischen Militärkapellen auf Weisung von Präsident Woodrow zu festlichen Anlässen dieses Lied. Im Jahr 1931 wurde es zur Nationalhymne.
Bei offiziellen Anlässen wird normalerweise nur die erste Strophe des Star-Spangled Banner gesungen.
Liedtext
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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. Oh, 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 Thru the mist 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 Half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam Of the morning's first beam In full glory reflected Now shines in the stream. This the star-spangled banner O long may it wave O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave! |
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And where is that band Who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war And the battle's confusion A home and a country Should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out Their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save The hireling and slave From the terror of flight Or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner In triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave! |
Oh! thus be it ever When freemen shall stand Between their loved homes And the war's desolation! Blest with vict'ry and peace May the Heav'n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made And preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must When our cause it is just And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner In triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave! |