"I pledge
allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all."
The
Star Spangled Banner, along with the Pledge of Allegiance (Juramento a la Bandera o a la Patria) is what you will need to
recite the day you receive your Certificate of Naturalization.
You will be encouraged to
sing the Star Spangled Banner at every public ceremony, such as graduations or other government and school related events.
Below are the lyrics to accompany the music...
Star Spangled Banner
(Lyrics by Francis Scott Key)
Oh,
say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose
broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
