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)
To: chajin
6 posted on
09/14/2014 11:55:06 AM PDT by
Whenifhow
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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