Jordin Sparks, American Idol season 6 winner, sings The National Anthem -- The Star-Spangled Banner-- at The Superbowl 2008.
Lyrics:
- 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 thro’ the mist 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 homes and the war’s desolation!
- Blest with vict’ry 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.