• themaninblack@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Doubt, unless mention of battle is sufficient to make the list

    EDIT: I was wrong. Here’s one of the verses that are not usually sung:

    “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 washed out their foul footsteps’ 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.”