Please remember to stand up ladies and gentlemen and put your right hand on your heart in honour of those brave patriots who held up that flag with their dying bodies on that fateful night of September 12 1814 at Fort McHenry under ceaseless canon fire from His Majesty's ships, as well as their comrades, the prisoners in the hold of one of those ships, whose concern was not for themselves or their release but for news of that banner's fate - Oh, say ....
So, accompany the videos and sing along ladies and gentlemen, you know the words - Oh, say can you see, By the dawn's ....