The Star-Spangled Banner   

Words: Francis Scott Key        Music: John Stafford  Smith

             As sung by Whitney Houston


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, now conceals, now 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

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, for our cause it is just
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust" 

And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


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I Pledge Allegiance to the flag 
of the United States of America 
and to the Republic for which it stands, 
one Nation under GOD, indivisible, 
with liberty and justice for all. 


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I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely 
renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any 
foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom 
or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; 
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foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and 
allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of 
the United States when required by law; that I will perform 
noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States 
when required by the law; that I will perform work of national 
importance under civilian direction when required by the law; 
and that I take this obligation freely without any mental 
reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God. In 
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against all enemies, foreign and domestic; That I will
bear true faith and allegiance to the same; And that I
will obey the orders of the President of the United 
States and the orders of the officers appointed over
me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of
Military Justice, so help me God.