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HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM
The Star Spangled Banner?
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OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM - STAR SPANGLED BANNER
(in its entirety- all 4 verses)
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, thro' 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 thro' the night that our flag was still here.
Oh! say, does the star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen thro' 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 on the stream.
'Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long 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 washed out their foul footstep's 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 home and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our mott, "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in tirumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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The great national anthem of the United States of America, the The Star-Spangled Banner, was a poem written by Francis Scott Key after observing the attempt of the British in 1814 to bombard into submission Ft. McHenry at Baltimore. Detained on a British ship, Key did not know the outcome of the battle until the next morning he saw the American flag still flying over the fort. After his poem was published, it began to be sung to an already existing tune, often said (sometimes disparagingly) to have been an old drinking song (To Anacreon in Heaven).
It was many years before the song had any official status. It quickly, however, gained a certain importance. For instance, it was sung in 1865 at the ceremony when the United States flag was officially rehoisted over Ft. Sumter in Charleston harbor -- where, of course, the Civil War had begun with a Confederate bombardment. Later, the song achieved semi-official status in the usage of John Philip Sousa, conductor of the Marine Corps Band from 1880 to 1892 and thereafter involved with both the Army and Navy music programs -- not to mention composer of immortal marches like The Stars and Stripes Forever. Just before Sousa's death in 1932, Congress officially adopted The Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem (1931).
The original flag from Fort McHenry is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution (half of it, indeed, was shot away); and flags are kept flying day and night over the Fort itself, and at Francis Scott Key's grave.
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I’m driving down the highway Feeling just the right way The weather is fine don’t care about the time
Yea, I’m driving on my Gold Wing Yea, riding on my Gold Wing I can find a better way to spend my day
Cruising through the mountains heading for the sunset From town to town until the sun goes down
Yea, I’m driving on my Gold Wing, Yea riding on my Gold Wing I can find a better way to spend my day
I spent a fortune on my bike It’s the pleasure of my life And I don’t care what the people say Because I’ll do it any way
I spent a fortune on my bike It’s the pleasure of my life And I don’t care what the people say Because I’ll do it any way
I’m driving down the highway Feeling just the right way The weather is fine don’t care about the time
Yea, I’m driving on my Gold Wing, Yea riding on my Gold Wing I can find a better way to spend my day I can find a better way to spend my day
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Here are 2 more songs found on the GWRRA National site
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Goldwing Song