[Did Francis Scott Key ever write anything of note besides the “Star Spangled Banner?”]
He actually wrote two lyrics to the same melody.
At dawn, Key was able to see an American flag still waving. Back in Baltimore and inspired, Key wrote a poem about his experience, “Defence of Fort M’Henry”, which was soon published in William Pechin’s American and Commercial Daily Advertiser on September 21, 1814. He took it to Thomas Carr, a music publisher, who adapted it to the rhythms of composer John Stafford Smith’s “To Anacreon in Heaven”, a popular tune Key had already used as a setting for his 1805 song “When the Warrior Returns”, celebrating U.S. heroes of the First Barbary War. (Key used the “star-spangled” flag imagery in the earlier song.) It has become better known as “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key
Thanks for the info; also check msg #65 for another set of lyrics to the tune.