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Posted on 03/10/2026 2:30:42 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods
A story of how our national anthem came to be.
I was asked by someone to put a video together for this audio and upload it, so here it is. I was never expecting it to get so many views.
Yes, I'm aware some info isn't exactly right. Please stop sending complaints. Like I said before, I was asked to upload it here. You can look up the accurate story if want the precise info.
Here's a link to one of many sources for info on the true story: https://tinyurl.com/yb6laets
Hope you enjoy the message of this video though. God Bless America!
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Don't know how accurate this is, mistakes are noted.
Gerald McRaney got turned around on this story so much that I would be embarrassed to share.
Leave to a actor to go off half-cocked without a script.
The original music was from “The Anacreontic Song”. It was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen’s club of amateur musicians in London. It is hard to sing because it was composed for Soprano performers.
Here are its original lyrics:
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw234.html
Indeed, "some" of the info isn't exactly right. In fact, the video is wildly inaccurate.
For one thing, the narrator refers to the US as “the colonies,” but by 1814, the US had been independent for 38 years. He refers to Fort McHenry as “Fort Henry.” He claims that Francis Scott Key was negotiating for the release of prisoners, but he wasn't. The British issued no ultimatum demanding that “the colonies” surrender.
There were about a thousand soldiers in the fort but only a few women, one of whom was killed, and no children. The British fleet consisted of 19 ships—not “hundreds.” Only three soldiers and a civilian were killed in Fort McHenry. One British sailor was wounded by a direct hit on a British rocket cruiser.
nice story
but ii like this song the best. there are 4 verses and the O is vocative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvVtFD9Na0I
But it was a nice story as the ocean fog blew in on the northern chesapeake bay. overland about 50 miles of it.
And it’s not slurred with some country music or the singers that can’t hold a note so they try to find one. This version sound like Yankee doodle.
Why is thing still up with its original narration? One could keep the graphics and change the wording to make it accurate. And, then, you have people reposting it. Why? 🤷🏻♂️
another good one from Melissa Etheridge she doesn’t add any notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsowiXx5i3g
that was a powerful version- what a voice-
wow very nice version-
bump
My favorite arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner is by Felix Vinatieri, bandmaster to Custer’s 7th Calvary
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