More On the Anthem "Controversy"

Did you know that there are three other verses to the "Star-Spangled Banner?" That's right. After reading them all, I can see why we only know and sing the first verse.

"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, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O 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 homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for 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!"

What if the Latinos sung a Spanish-version to one or more of these verses? Would we care then? People created such a fuss about "Nuestro Himno," which was released on April 28th, but this is not the only published Spanish-version of the "Star-Spangled Banner. In fact, there is a copyrighted version from 1919, titled, "Himno nacional- La Bandera de Estrellas." Check out the U.S. State Department's website to see this and other versions.