Some are so overcome they drop to their knees in amazement 🤪
My favorite rendition from 1943: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N141Z3j7mbU
For the fourth.
That video “The Star-Spangled Banner As You’ve Never Heard It” is wildly historically inaccurate. In fact, it’s downright silly. Yet it’s been circulating on the Internet for years.
I’ve heard better.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard verses 2-4.
But I know all the words of the first verse.
If anyone watches NFL they will get their due punishment when a trans choir performs it at the super bowl with s few altered words.
Here’s a version that is considered one of the best, it’s Whitney Houston before Super Bowl XXV in 1991 in Tampa, Florida. Sorry she had an unhappy personal life that resulted in early death but here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lCmBvYMRs
How far we have sunk since then, it’s really a shame.
Sandy Patty is the BEST imho.
https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200000017
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200215802.0 (first-ever printing, probably less than a dozen copies extant. Note typo. Typo in the FIRST printing.