The Star-Spangled Banner ... 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 ...

Full text is unavailable for this ... a granddaughter of Francis Scott Key, whose famous song, "The Star-Spangled Banner," bids fair to become the National anthem of the United States.

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an ... in which a statue of Francis Scott Key, the Maryland lawyer who wrote the ...

A major bridge that collapsed in Baltimore after getting hit by a ship is named for Francis Scott Key, who turned a ... and became known as "The Star-Spangled Banner.” Over the 19th century ...