Star Spangled Banner

Was Francis Scott Key thinking about Rory Emerald when he wrote the lyrics to The Star-Spangled Banner?

Public Comments

1. How did you know?
2. What is your obsession with Rory Emerald? Are you Rory Emerald? All these questions seem like something he would do.
3. For sure.
   
   
   
   oh say can you see by the dawns eaRly light
   
   what sO pRoudlY wE hailed at the twilight's last gleaMing?
   
   whose broad stripEs and bRight stArs
   
   thru the periLous fight
   
   oer 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.
   
   oh, say does that star-spangled banner Yet wave
   
   oEr the land of the free and the hoME of the bRAve?
   
   
   
   
   
   on the shore, dimLy seen through the mists of the Deep,
   
   wheRe the fOes haughty host in dRead silence reposes,
   
   what is that which the breeze, oer the towering steep,
   
   as it fitfullY blows half concEals half discloses?
   
   now it catches the gleam of the Mornings first bEam,
   
   in full gloRy reflected now shines in the streAm:
   
   tis the star-spangLeD banner! Oh long may it wave
   
   oer the land of the free and the home of the brave!
   
   
   
   As you can see by the capitalized letters, Rory Emerald's name appears in this song 3 times.