Post from user "dances_with_sneetches":

Okay, maybe this is the place I can find someone to explain to me the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner.

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 wash'd out their foul footstep's 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.

posted by dances_with_sneetches at 9:10 PM PST on April 28

Reply from user "bac":

I'll try:

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?

"Where are those guys who said they were going to make war on us and destroy our country?"

Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.

"We kicked their asses."

No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,

"There was no place for them to hide, so they fled and we killed them."

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

"U.S.A! U.S.A!"

posted by bac at 9:31 PM PST on April 28