The Star-spangled Banner chords by Traditional

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Intermediate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZJ3fTgLIl4

Verse 1:
G7 C    G  Am E7   Am    D7 G
Oh say, can you see by the dawn's ear-ly light,
     C     G       F     C  G  C
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
 G7     C      G   Am  E7     Am  D7 G
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the peril-ous fight
     C      G        F   C  G   C
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
 C        G7             C
And the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air,
   C         G       C  Am  D7  G
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
  C       F       Dm    C  G
Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wa - ve
     C      Am      C    G7 C
O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave?

Verse 2:
G7   C    G  Am  E7     Am    D7 G
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
      C       G    F   C  G   C
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
 G7   C     G  Am   E7    Am  D7 G
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
    C    G       F   C  G   C
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
    C    G7               C
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
     C    G    C     Am D7 G
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
   C       F       Dm     C  G
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wa - ve
     C      Am      C    G7 C
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Verse 3:
G7    C    G  Am E7 Am   D7 G
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
     C    G      F    C G C
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
 G7   C   G  Am  E7  Am   D7 G
A home and a country should leave us no more!
       C     G     F    C   G C
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
 C     G7           C
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
   C       G       C  Am D7 G
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
   C      F       Dm     C  G
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wa - ve
     C      Am      C    G7 C
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Verse 4:
G7  C   G  Am  E7  Am   D7  G
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
        C   G      F    C G C
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
 G7     C    G  Am   E7   Am   D7   G
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
      C     G       F    C G C
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
 C        G7           C
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
   C      G     C Am D7 G
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
   C      F       Dm      C  G
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wa - ve
     C      Am      C    G7 C
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!