 The Song is performed by the Mergenthaler Mass Choir before each school assembly.Following the playing and singing of the national anthem of the United States with the "Star-Spangled Banner" - composed in Baltimore by Francis Scott Key during the British attack on Fort McHenry in the Battle of Baltimore, September 12-13-14th, 1814, during the War of 1812.The lyrics of the M.V.-T.H.S.