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Star Spangled Banner

Words by Francis Scott Key, Music by John Stafford Smith - 1814

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Bb                F	Gm             D7	Gm             C7	F
Bb      F7      Bb	F                F7	Bb	-
Bb                F	Gm             D7	Gm             C7	F
Bb      F7      Bb	F                F7	Bb	-
-	-	F       Bb     F7	-
Bb      F7      Bb	F                F7	Bb     Gm    C7	F
Bb	Eb              G7	Cm	Bb       F        F7
Bb	-               Gm6	Bb               F7	Bb        (repeat)

12-beat intro.  Play 3-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

This song is in 3/4 waltz time.

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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 rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thru 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?

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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