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People! There's more to the song than the first stanza!
Read the words.
READ THEM
DIGEST THEM
UNDERSTAND THEM
then ...
Sing them with all your heart. Sing them to those ( foreign powers and those who hold domestic offices ) who want to destroy our way of life that was fought for and defended with the life's blood of people worth far more than the smirking chimp who soils the office he has squat in this decade.
SING THEM AND BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN ... especially if it seems hard to be so in our current times.
cue the music boys
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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?
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 on 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 wiped out their foul footstep's 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.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-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!
---
Sing it loud. Sing it proud!
READ THEM
DIGEST THEM
UNDERSTAND THEM
then ...
Sing them with all your heart. Sing them to those ( foreign powers and those who hold domestic offices ) who want to destroy our way of life that was fought for and defended with the life's blood of people worth far more than the smirking chimp who soils the office he has squat in this decade.
SING THEM AND BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN ... especially if it seems hard to be so in our current times.
cue the music boys
---
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?
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 on 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 wiped out their foul footstep's 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.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-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!
---
Sing it loud. Sing it proud!
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But still, happy Independance Day Jak. There are a lot of reasons nowadays why it's hard to be proud to be American, but the people like you are the ones that make it easy. :)
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Thanks.
I started this tradition last year on the 4th when I saw that fucking smirking chimp haphazardly mouth his way through the first stanza. I blew up at the TV in front of my folks.
" FUCK YOU you drunken hypocritical fucktard! DO NOT sing them if you don't know the words! You've made it quite clear for the last 5 years that they don't MEAN anything to you. SO don't pretend they do! Just stand there with the typical "lil boy waiting for his next bathroom break" expression you use when you're trying to get the american sheeple to believe you're a "compassionate conservative" FUCK YOU! "
My mom asked me if I needed a drink or cigerette after I was done.
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"BOTH!" as I grabbed a beer and lit up the last clove from the tin of djarum internationals I kept in their freezer for "emergency purposes" then walked out to pick pears off the tree in the backyard.
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Happy 4th.
:)
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I <3 you Eddie Izzard.
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Sing it quietly, because NO ONE CAN NOT HIT THAT NOTE ON "BRAVE" AND WE ALL KNOW IT!
How many hockey games must I endure where the man next to me as a Pavarotti complex and sounds like he's beating a cat to death with another cat?
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That's great!