Were did the anthem come from ….. do you know …… 1812 ring a bell the war of 1812 was when this song was written by:Francis Scott Key.I am going to translate this into my own words/ or tell you in a way that you might be ale to comprehend better.
Oh, say, can you see,
(can you see whats really happening)
by the dawn’s early light,
( it was really early in the morning and it was bright from the sun)
What so proudly we hailed
( we were so proud that are flag was there staring in the sky)
at the twilight’s last gleaming?
(the moon in the sky or the rockets and bombs being blown up the bright light that they see)
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
,(the flag with its stripes and the stars that have 50 states)
thru the perilous fight,
( when planes were flying the bombs and the flag is flying )
O’er the ramparts we watched,
(we were sitting on the ship watching the flag fly in the air)
were so gallantly streaming? (the bombs and rockets were streaming
so loudly in the air)
And the rockets’ red glare,
( the big rockets with a thing on the end that you light and they would glare red but the they wouldnt killl you there was a small chance)
the bombs bursting in air
(the bombs that they threw would try to kill people and they would fly in the air),
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
(the flag was bright in the air because of the rockets that were bright and the flag was still there).
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ( the banner the flag was waving and the british new they saw it)
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
(the land was free from the british andthey were going to home and they stayed brave and they always will be brave)
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