The Star-Spangled Banner

The Star-Spangled Banner () je štátna hymna Spojených štátov amerických. Text napísal Francis Scott Key a hudbu zložil John Stafford Smith.

 História 
Text napísal právnik a amatérsky básnik Francis Scott Key, potom, čo bol počas britsko-americkej vojny (vojna roku 1812) v noci z 13. na 14. septembra 1814 svedkom, ako posádka americkej pevnosti Fort Mchenry v Baltimore úspešne vzdoruje ťažkému ostreľovaniu z mora.

Keyova báseň The Defence of Fort McHenry (Obrana pevnosti McHenry) bola prvýkrát vytlačená 17. septembra a o tri dni neskôr znovu, už pod aktuálnym titulom a ako pieseň na melódiu anglickej anakreontskej piesne To Anacreon in Heaven od Johna Stafforda Smitha. Hymnou Spojených štátov amerických sa stala rozhodnutím Kongresu dňa 3. marca 1931.

 Text 
Ako hymna sa obvykle hrá iba prvá sloha.

 Po anglicky 
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 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?On the shore dimly seen.

Thru 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 in the stream.

This the star-spangled banner.

O 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 footsteps' 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 homes.

And the war's desolation!.

Blest with vict'ry and peace.

May the Heav'n-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:

"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!.The National Anthem Project - The Star Spangled Banner Po slovensky 
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