The Star-Spangled Banner
I’d say that most children in America are taught The Star-Spangled Banner at some point, but even adults need the lyrics for reference sometimes, especially for that second verse that they never sing at baseball games, do they? As the National Anthem for the United States, it’s important for girls to learn the song for official troop ceremonies and events!
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 watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ 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?Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their lov’d homes and 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 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.
Buy the Girl Scout Pocket Songbook here for full sheet music.
