The Star Spangled Banner

Oh,  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,
through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched,
were so gallantly streaming?

 And the rocket’s 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?

El Himno Nacional de los Estados Unidos de América fue inspirado en la defensa del Fuerte McHenry, cerca de Baltimore, Maryland, durante la Guerra de 1812.  Francis Scott Key había pasado la noche del bombardeo dentro de un buque de guerra británico en puerto.  En el mismo, se había amparado bajo una bandera de cese al fuego, mientras negociaba la liberación de unos prisioneros.  La melodía del mismo originalmente era una canción popular llamada “Anacreón en el Cielo”, a la cual el texto, “Adams y la Libertad”, se le incorporó durante la Revolución Americana.

 This National Anthem of the United States of America was inspired by the defense of Ft. McHenry, near Baltimore, Maryland, during the War of 1812.  Francis Scott Key had spent the night of the bombardment on a British warship in  harbor, where he had gone under a flag of truce to arrange for the release of prisoners.  The tune was originally a popular song titled “Anacreon in Heaven” to which a text, “Adams and Liberty”, was added during the American Revolution.