The star-spangled Banner – Whitney Houston (Letras)

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Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight s lasted 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?
II
On the shore dimly seen, through the mists 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 fully 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.
III
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 vanished 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!
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Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand. Between their loved home and the war s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that has 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.

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