Posted by lyric from socksb.chips.ibm.com on July 05, 2001 at 09:17:06:
In Reply to: Oh, Say Can You See..... posted by MK on July 04, 2001 at 09:36:15:
Well said
...It is unfortunate that those verses are ommited, but I guess they would not be "politicly correct". Most Americans do not appreciate what was accomplished by our forfathers. And they seem to forget on what this country was founded. I am glad to know that you are not one of those people.
lyric
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: Words my an ancestor wrote the centuries ago. The first verse is well known. The others are usually omitted. Here is the fourth verse:
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: Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
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: Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
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: Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
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: Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
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: Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
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: And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
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: And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
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: O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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: God bless The United States of America!!
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: Happy July 4th!