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To: Thistooshallpass9

To Anacreon in Heaven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Anacreon_in_Heaven

“the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen’s club of amateur musicians in London. Composed by John Stafford Smith, the tune was later used by several writers as a setting for their patriotic lyrics. These included two songs by Francis Scott Key, most famously his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”. The combination of Key’s poem and Smith’s composition became known as “The Star-Spangled Banner”, which was adopted as the national anthem of the United States of America in 1931.”


6 posted on 09/12/2019 8:06:25 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberalism is the belief everyone else should be in treatment for your disorder.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
The Anacreon Song
10 posted on 09/12/2019 9:06:57 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
>two songs by Francis Scott Key

The other song to the same music, written by Key, was written to honor Stephen Decatur for his heroic exploits during the Barbary Wars. Which were just an earlier chapter in the war we're fighting today.

11 posted on 09/12/2019 9:26:43 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (waiting for the tweets to hatch)
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