Forgotten Verse of the National Anthem

[goinggreyfast]

All these years and I don't ever remember hearing about this. Suddenly I feel a bit ashamed. Try singing this verse at a High School Football game. Do they even sing the SSB at High School events anymore?

Marine Stuns a Crowd with a Forgotten Verse of the National Anthem

 

[shooter521]

The "second" verse sung by the gentleman in the video is actually the fourth verse of the song.


O 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;
O 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 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 conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis 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.

O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home 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!

 

[goinggreyfast]

Wow! Thanks for posting Shooter!

 

[shooter521]

Wow! Thanks for posting Shooter!

No, thank YOU for the very appropriate post today!

 

[sharkey]

Thanks you two. Got me to searching:

http://youtu.be/Kuv1Mt6kMOU

 

[goinggreyfast]

Thanks for sharing that. That was awesome!

 

[SSGSAD]

Wow! Thanks for posting Shooter!

We learned the fourth verse, as the SECOND verse, in GRADE SCHOOL !!!!!

 

[netsecurity]

The actual second and third verses aren't that good, but the first and last are touching. I liked the video and the patriotism.

 

[starbreather]

Very powerful. Awesome stuff,thanks.