The Star-Spangled ... and lyrics to the well-known anthem below. The music was written by British composer and early musicologist John Stafford Smith around 1773, but remained lyric-less until 1814, ...

Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics ... Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott ...

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem, later to become America’s national anthem.

Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem ... poem that is the basis for the Anthem is “racist”. Francis Scott Key was a slave owner, therefore we should not honor ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis Scott Key, a Maryland attorney and poet, who was inspired by watching soldiers raise the flag over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry after a ...