Who else thought, "hopefully not forever?"

It sounds a little Monty Python to my ear sometimes. I'm more a Francis Scott Key kinda guy, myself.

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Francis Scott Key wrote poetry. The Star Spangled Banner's melody comes from an old drinking song. Try singing just the sounds of it with a bit of a swagger and you can't miss it.

As for Stars and Stripes Forever, it is one of my favorites. For some reason the piccalo solo is always played by one flautist or three, never two. I also listened to this song on my way into work this morning. The only thing I don't like about this song is the blind nationalism and patriotic fervor it seems to embue.

Here we go, via wikipedia: The poem was set to the tune of a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a London social club. "The Anacreontic Song" was already popular in the United States and set to various lyrics. Set to Key's poem and renamed, "The Star Spangled Banner" would soon become a well-known American patriotic song.

Makes you want to sing right along;
"Be kind to your web-footed friends, for a duck could be somebody's mother."
Great music = great melody. Sousa never wasted a single note.

>> ^HistNerd:
Francis Scott Key wrote poetry. The Star Spangled Banner's melody comes from an old drinking song...


That must be why it resonates so deeply with me! "oh shay can you sheee *hick* bah the donzerlee liiigh"

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