The Marred Strangled Banner

Oh Say can you see

What so sadly is right

That our freedom was lost

While we slept through the night

O’re the ballot boxes we watched

As the Socialists went streaming

Through their brazen attacks

The loopholes were gleaming

And the media was there

With pundits to blare

The truth not to be found

As in debt we’re bound

Oh say does that marred strangled banner

Yet wave

O’re the land of the “freebie”

And the home of the slave.