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The Star-spangled Banner by Traditional

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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Intermediate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZJ3fTgLIl4

Verse 1:
G7  C        G   Am  E7      Am        D7  G
Oh say, can you see  by the dawn's ear-ly light,
         C          G             F          C    G    C
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
 G7          C           G      Am    E7          Am    D7  G
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the peril-ous fight
          C           G               F     C   G     C
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
 C                G7                          C
And the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air,
      C                 G              C   Am   D7    G
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
    C             F             Dm        C    G
Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wa - ve
          C           Am           C       G7  C
O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave?

Verse 2:
G7      C        G   Am   E7          Am       D7  G
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
           C             G       F     C   G     C
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
 G7      C          G   Am      E7       Am   D7  G
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
       C        G              F      C   G     C
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
        C       G7                              C
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
         C       G       C         Am  D7  G
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
      C             F              Dm         C    G
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wa - ve
          C           Am           C       G7  C
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Verse 3:
G7        C        G    Am E7  Am     D7  G
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
          C        G           F        C  G  C
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
 G7     C     G   Am   E7    Am      D7  G
A home and a country should leave us no more!
             C          G         F        C      G  C
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
 C         G7                      C
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
      C             G              C    Am  D7  G
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
     C            F              Dm          C    G
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wa - ve
          C           Am           C       G7  C
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Verse 4:
G7   C      G   Am    E7   Am      D7    G
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
               C     G            F       C G C
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
 G7         C       G   Am     E7      Am     D7      G
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
            C          G             F        C  G  C
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
 C               G7                     C
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
     C           G          C  Am  D7  G
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
     C            F              Dm           C    G
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wa - ve
          C           Am           C       G7  C
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!