The Additional Verses to the STAR SPANGLED BANNER

This is absolutely fantastic and this Marine can sing. Did you even know that there any additional verses??

Sorry, its a link. Couldnt get it to embed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0fQd858cRc&playnext_from=TL&videos=cWNozAevym8&feature=sub

 

I saw this a week or two ago. Awesome vid.

 

Very nice!

 

jesus. hahah insane

 

I know, pretty great!!!

 

Bingo>>>

 

Is there really an extra verse (or was this the singer's extra verse)?

 

Nope, its true. Those are real!

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_lyrics_for_the_entire_Star_Spangled_Banner

 

That's wild...I never knew!?.

 

he should be at attention. nasty.

 

Hard to be at attention and sing as heart felt as he did. If I am not mistaken (been a while since I served), you are only required to be at attention if you are an active member or in uniform. I could be mistaken but I think thats correct.

 

that sent shivers

 

Dam. His voice fits the song so well.

 

X2, damn good job and the verses should be put back.

 

but that might anger non-americans and californians

 

O! 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, 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, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and 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 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.

O! 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!

 

I hate to say it, but you're spot on...

 

Yep... in fact we sang the whole Anthem last Sunday at church. Awesome Patriotic Service. God Bless America!!!

 

Cool. You sang it in church?