2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/25/2025
Scarce Song Sheet, 6” x 9-1/2”, published by J.H. Johnson, Philadelphia, VG. A parody song to the tune of “Star Spangled Banner, in part, “O say, can you see -- though perhaps you're too tight, What so feebly we hailed at the twilight's last beaming, Whose broad bars and few stars o'er our scurrilous flight ... When the rockets' red glare and bombs bursting in air, Gave proof, though we ran, that our rag remained there? O, say, does that Bar-Strangled Banner still wave, O'er the land of the thief and the home of the slave? ... See the error we have made in arousing a nation, Be conquered we must, for our cause is unjust ...
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