The Star-Spangled Banner
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. It is always performed before any sporting event.
Background
In "Cartman Finds Love", country singer Brad Paisley, sang the "Star-Spangled Banner" before the L.A. Clippers vs. the Denver Nuggets professional basketball game.
In "Member Berries", the government gets J.J. Abrams to reboot the song after sportspeople around the country decide to sit out the National Anthem. J.J. Abrams's reboot means people can sit, stand or kneel, ruining Herbert Garrison's plan which is to sit out the National Anthem so Hillary Clinton becomes president.
In South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid, the anthem is sung as the boys are being seated prior to a basketball match in Pepsi Center.
Lyrics
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's 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
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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 washed out their foul footsteps' 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!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!