The Star Spangled Banner

Lyrics by Francis Scott Key

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light

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

O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming

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And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there

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Oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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Twilight- sunset

O’er- over

Dawn’s early light - sunrise

Gallantly - showy, splendid, stately, bravely, chivalrous

Perilous- dangerous

Ramparts- wall or embankment around the fort; A trench is dug

around the fort that forces the enemy to drop to a lower level just as they are attacking