A himnusz szovege 1814-ben keletkezett,az angol-amerikai haboru idejen.Egy ifju jogaszhalgato,Francis Scott Key irta a szoveget csillag-savos lobogo cimmel.
A dallamat John Stafford Smith,amely eredetileg egy nepszeru bordal dallama volt.Az idok folyaman mint a dallam,mint a ritmus sokat valtozott.
A dalt W.Wilson,az egyesult allamok 28.elnoke mar 1916-ban az orszag himnuszava tette,de a kongresszus csak 1981-ben fogadta el hivatalossa.
........................Csillag-savos lobogo..................................
Oh,mond,a csillagokkal boritott lobogo,meg ott lebeg-e
A szabadsag orszaga es a batrak hona felett?
A part csak halvanyan dereng a vizen borongo kodben,
Mig az ellen gogos hada rettegett csendben pihen.
Mi az,amit a szello a tornyosulo hullamok kozott
Mig fuj,idonkent felig rejt,felig felfed?
Most felragyog a felkelo nap sugaraban
Es teljes gloriajaban tundokol a viz tukreben-
Ez a csillagokkal boritott lobogo!
Lobogj a szabadsag orszaga es a batrak hona felett!
Es igy legyen mindorokke,ha a szabadsag hoseinek
Kell allniuk szeretett honuk es a haboru kozott:
Aldozatuk gyozelmet es beket teremt.A gondviseles
Megmentette nep dicserje a nemzetet mento Urat,
Mert gyoznunk kell,amikor az ugyunk igazsagos.
Legyen jelszavunk:Tebenned a bizodalmunk!
Es ez a csillagokkal boritott lobogo gyoztesen fog lobogni
A szabadsag es a batrak hona felett!
........................The Star-Spangled Banner.........................
Oh,say,can you see,by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly,we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stipes and bright stars,thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd,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 the Star-Spangled Banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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 conceas,half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the sream,
'this the Star-Spangled Banner,O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace May the heaven rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must,when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto:"I 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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