创作背景
巴尔的摩市东南的麦克亨利堡建在一个小半岛上是个平面成五角星状的要塞扼进港要道。第二次美英战争期间作为前哨阵地抗击英军。1814年英国舰队直扑麦克亨利堡昼夜连续猛轰此堡。当时有一位名叫弗朗西斯·斯科特·基的美国律师乘船到英舰交涉释放被扣留的美国平民。他目击了英军炮轰麦克亨利堡及美军英勇抵抗的惨烈场面忧心如焚。1814年9月13日凌晨弗朗西斯·斯科特·基透过炮火的硝烟看到一面美国国旗仍然在城堡上迎风飘扬他被这景像深深感动随手在一封信的背后写下了几行诗。后来他把诗稿送给法官尼科尔逊 Nicholson得到大力赞赏并建议用一首当时非常流行的曲子John Stafford Smith作曲的“To Anacreon in Heaven”做为配曲同时取歌名为“星条旗之歌” The Star Spangled Banner这首歌深受美国人民的喜爱很快就传遍全国。
1931年美国国会正式将《星条旗之歌》定为美利坚合众国的国歌。如今巴尔的摩市的麦克亨利堡已被辟为国家纪念地和历史圣地。1985年11月7日巴尔的摩市与中国福建省厦门市结为友好城市。
歌曲歌词
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 thru the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh 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 in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
When our land is illuminated with liberty’s smile
If a foe from within strikes a blow at her glory
Down down with the traitor that tries to defile
The flag of the stars and the page of her story!
By the millions unchained
Who their birthright have gained
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained;
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
While the land of the free is 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 washed out of of their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight and 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 home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace may the heav'n 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.
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