Guitar tablature for "The Star Spangled Banner" by "Francis Scott Key"

Artist: Francis Scott Key
Piece: The Star Spangled Banner
Instrument: Guitar
Submitter: MasteR_DisasteR
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ARTIST: Francis Scott Key; September 14, 1814 - Fort McHenry.
SONG: "The Star Spangled Banner" (United States of America's National Anthem)
TABBER: Master Disaster
TUNING: E - A - D - G - B - E (Standard)


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Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the 
twilight's last gleaming?

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Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight; O'er the ramparts 
we watched, were so gallantly streaming.

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And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night 
that our flag was still there.

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Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave. O'er the land of the free

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and the home of the brave? 

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On the shore dimly seen, thro' the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host 
in dread silence reposes, 

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What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half 
conceals, half discloses?

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Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now 
shines on the stream;

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'Tis the star-spangled banner: oh, long may it wave. O'er the land of the free

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and the home of the brave. 

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And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the 
battle's confusion

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A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash'd out their foul 
footstep's pollution.

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No refuge could save the hireling and slave. From the terror of flight or the gloom 
of the grave,

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And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave. O'er the land of the free

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and the home of the brave. 

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Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand, Between their loved homes and the 
war's desolation;

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Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land. Praise the Power that 
has made and preserved us as a nation.

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Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,And this be our motto: 
"In God is our trust";

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And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave. O'er the land of the free 

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and the home of the brave. 


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