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To: Whenifhow
There was a "Star-Spangled Banner" of sorts before there was a Star-Spangled Banner--by which I mean there was a patriotic song sung to the same tune, the words of which you can read here. I actually had a group of people once sing all the verses of this for a July 4th commemoration, and the general reaction was that it was too confusing and too long. Long is one issue, but if you take the time, you will discover how much patriotism can be found in the lyrics.
4 posted on 09/14/2014 11:49:23 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

The article below claims that Francis Scott Key borrowed the tune “To Anacreon in Heaven” - video of that tune is linked below.

‘Star-Spangled Banner’: Anthem was once a song of drinking and sex

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-star-spangled-banner-200-anniversary-20140912-story.html

“The words of ‘To Anacreon in Heaven,’ the song that Francis Scott Key borrowed for the melody of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’

The Anacreon Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydAIdVKv84g


6 posted on 09/14/2014 11:55:06 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: chajin
Anacreon seems to have been a popular tune to use back in the day, for all the modern gripes about its range. Keyes had explicitly used the tune before to set an earlier poem, celebrating earlier battles in a current war, albeit according to Pasha Obama, not a real war.
23 posted on 09/14/2014 1:35:33 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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