The Flag of the Free.Air—O saw ye the Lass with the bonny blue E’en?Oh saw ye the Flag with the Thirty-four Stars?’Tis red with the glories of Liberty’s wars;’Tis bright as the sunbeam, and blue as the sky,’Tis the loveliest banner that waveth on high.The home of that Flag is each patriot’s heart—From Freedom and Union it never can part;For wherever it floateth, on land or on sea,Every nation proclaims it the Flag of the Free!Though the hand of dark Treason its luster would mar,It shall yield not a stripe, it shall lose not a star;But forevermore planted on Liberty’s rock,Every storm it will breast, and defy every shock.While the broad Mississippi flows down to the main,And the blue Alleghanies arise from the plain—While Niagara’s waters unshackled shall be,It will wave o’er our Union, the Flag of the Free!
Air—O saw ye the Lass with the bonny blue E’en?
Oh saw ye the Flag with the Thirty-four Stars?’Tis red with the glories of Liberty’s wars;’Tis bright as the sunbeam, and blue as the sky,’Tis the loveliest banner that waveth on high.The home of that Flag is each patriot’s heart—From Freedom and Union it never can part;For wherever it floateth, on land or on sea,Every nation proclaims it the Flag of the Free!Though the hand of dark Treason its luster would mar,It shall yield not a stripe, it shall lose not a star;But forevermore planted on Liberty’s rock,Every storm it will breast, and defy every shock.While the broad Mississippi flows down to the main,And the blue Alleghanies arise from the plain—While Niagara’s waters unshackled shall be,It will wave o’er our Union, the Flag of the Free!
Oh saw ye the Flag with the Thirty-four Stars?’Tis red with the glories of Liberty’s wars;’Tis bright as the sunbeam, and blue as the sky,’Tis the loveliest banner that waveth on high.The home of that Flag is each patriot’s heart—From Freedom and Union it never can part;For wherever it floateth, on land or on sea,Every nation proclaims it the Flag of the Free!Though the hand of dark Treason its luster would mar,It shall yield not a stripe, it shall lose not a star;But forevermore planted on Liberty’s rock,Every storm it will breast, and defy every shock.While the broad Mississippi flows down to the main,And the blue Alleghanies arise from the plain—While Niagara’s waters unshackled shall be,It will wave o’er our Union, the Flag of the Free!
Oh saw ye the Flag with the Thirty-four Stars?’Tis red with the glories of Liberty’s wars;’Tis bright as the sunbeam, and blue as the sky,’Tis the loveliest banner that waveth on high.The home of that Flag is each patriot’s heart—From Freedom and Union it never can part;For wherever it floateth, on land or on sea,Every nation proclaims it the Flag of the Free!
Oh saw ye the Flag with the Thirty-four Stars?
’Tis red with the glories of Liberty’s wars;
’Tis bright as the sunbeam, and blue as the sky,
’Tis the loveliest banner that waveth on high.
The home of that Flag is each patriot’s heart—
From Freedom and Union it never can part;
For wherever it floateth, on land or on sea,
Every nation proclaims it the Flag of the Free!
Though the hand of dark Treason its luster would mar,It shall yield not a stripe, it shall lose not a star;But forevermore planted on Liberty’s rock,Every storm it will breast, and defy every shock.While the broad Mississippi flows down to the main,And the blue Alleghanies arise from the plain—While Niagara’s waters unshackled shall be,It will wave o’er our Union, the Flag of the Free!
Though the hand of dark Treason its luster would mar,
It shall yield not a stripe, it shall lose not a star;
But forevermore planted on Liberty’s rock,
Every storm it will breast, and defy every shock.
While the broad Mississippi flows down to the main,
And the blue Alleghanies arise from the plain—
While Niagara’s waters unshackled shall be,
It will wave o’er our Union, the Flag of the Free!