星條旗 (國歌) 編輯하기 (部分)

== 歌詞 ==
上述한대로 國歌의 基盤이되는詩는 戰時에作成되었으며, 歌詞亦是 當時의戰狀을反映하고있다. 또한, 이러한歌詞를通해 英[[軍艦]]의徹夜砲擊後에도 聳然히 서있었던 [[맥핸리要塞]]위 星條旗의모습을 窺知할수있다.

<blockquote>
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,<br>
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,<br>
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,<br>
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?<br>
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,<br>
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;<br>
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave<br>
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<br>
<br>
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,<br>
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,<br>
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,<br>
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?<br>
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,<br>
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:<br>
’Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave<br>
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<br>
<br>
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore<br>
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,<br>
A home and a country, should leave us no more?<br>
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.<br>
No refuge could save the hireling and slave<br>
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:<br>
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,<br>
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<br>
<br>
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand<br>
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation.<br>
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land<br>
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!<br>
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,<br>
And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’<br>
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave<br>
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
</blockquote>

本來의歌詞는 4節로構成되어있으나, 1節外는부르지않는것이通常的이다.