The University of Michigan Marching Band, "The Star-Spangled Banner" from Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue (Mike Patriot Whiskey)
Commentary: The above is an instrumental rendition of our national anthem, but I, for one, cannot hear "The Star-Spangled Banner" without recalling the lyrics, the first stanza from Francis Scott Key's poem, "The Defence of Fort M'Henry."
"O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,Happy two hundred fiftieth birthday, America!
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?…"
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