Their fame is eclispsed by foul Slavery’s pollution. The havoc of war, and the battle’s confusion,įor Liberty’s sweets? We shall know them no more: And where is the band, who so valiantly bore.O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! ’Tis our star-spangled banner! Oh! When shall it wave ’Tis a slave ship that’s seen, by the morning’s first beam,Īnd its tarnished reflection pollutes now the stream: What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,Īs it heedlessly sweeps, half conceals, half discloses? Where Afric’s race in false safety reposes, On the shore, dimly seen thro’ the mists of the deep,.O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
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Of the whip of the driver trace channels of gore?Īnd say, doth our star-spangled banner yet wave With its stars, mocking freedom, is fitfully gleaming?ĭo you see the backs bare? Do you mark every score The shrieks of those bondmen, whose blood is now streamingįrom the merciless lash, while our banner in sight
Oh, say do you hear, at the dawn’s early light,. The complete lyrics of Atlee’s “New National Anthem” are: Atlee’s lyric is among the most powerful ever to be written to this melody and could be taught alongside Key’s own to highlight the responsibility that all Americans have to make certain that the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded are not taken for granted, but rather apply to all. Atlee’s lyric thus questions how a nation that permits slavery can in any sense be a “land of the free” at all, indicting the country as hypocritical and demanding the end of slavery. 13, 1844).Ītlee’s words echo Key’s own, creating a recriminating tension between often graphic descriptions of the slavery’s inhuman bondage on one hand and the ideals of freedom celebrated in “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the other. It was first published in the abolitionist newspaper Signal of Liberty (July 22, 1844) and later that same year in William Lloyd Garrison’s more famous national anti-slavery paper The Liberator (Sept. The most powerful of these lyrics and the most emblematic of the tune’s potential for social commentary is the 1844 anti-slavery lyric “Oh Say, Do You Hear?” by E. I’ve identified more than 100 sets of lyrics sung to the tune of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” some of which predate Key’s now famous lyric and others which follow and parody Key’s words. They might also express social protest to comment on issues of the day such as the right of women to vote or the evils of alcohol. 
1)Ĭelebrate a holiday like the Fourth of July. Atlee’s Star-Spangled Banner anti-slavery lyric labeled “A New National Anthem” (Signal of Liberty, July 22, 1844, p.
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