Star Spangled Banner - Uplifting Orchestral Ensemble Stock Photography

This is the official national anthem of the US. The lyrics are a poem written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key after witnessing the attack of Fort McHenry by British ships in Baltimore Harbor during the War of 1812. The music was from a popular British song by John Stafford Smith. Here it is done in an uplifting and spirited orchestra ensemble of piano, harp, strings, choir, and a flute melody line. 96 bpm. 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; O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O`er the land of the free and the home of the brave