Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam ... we became allies with them in WWII, the verse drops out of use in “The Star-Spangled Banner.” O thus be it ever when freemen shall ...

The Motor City Madman kicked off the 2025 Texas legislative session by playing a few licks on an Austin street corner a block from the Capitol.

The first verse of the poem, Defence of Fort M'Henry, later became known as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner, which officially became the national anthem of the United States in 1931.

"The Star-Spangled Banner ... lyric in "The Star-Spangled Banner" itself. If most of us have missed it for all this time, it's probably because all four verses of the national anthem are rarely ...