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Cyndy Lauper became the latest victim of flubbing the National anthem at the US open tennis tournament last night for the match between Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki. What began as a great start to the night as Lauper reminded the crowd that a moment of silence was needed to honor the anniversary of 9/11, ended with her slight alteration of the The Star Spangled Banner.
The Time After Time singer sang, “O’er the ramparts, we watched as our flag was still streaming,” instead of the proper way, “O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming.
Lauper is not the only singer who’s made this mistake at a sporting event. Christina Aguilera who sang the National anthem at the Super Bowl last year sang, “the twilight’s last reaming”
Mistakes are all a part of life but, if you are ever given the chance to sing the National anthem in front of millions of viewers, make sure that you practice. The lyrics are below.
The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
By Francis Scott Key 1814
Oh, 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 thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, 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 through the mists 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! Oh 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!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory 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!
