Star Spangled Banner

Ok, you wanted it, so here it is. I'm not sure what key it is in, but this

is the key I play it in. Also, i'm going to tab the bare minimun needed to

play it. With a little trial and error, you can come up with little things

that make it sound better.

Star Spangled Banner

By Frances Scott Key, 1814

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note 9^9 = bend 9 1 hole step and return

4~~ = virbrato note

verses

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,

O're the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockers' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there

O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave

O're the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shores, dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes

What is that which the breze, 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 on the steam:

'Tis the star spangled banner: O lang may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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 wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution

No refuge could save the hireling and slave