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To: lawgirl
. . .anyone that can write a song in 24 hours---hmmm I doubt how good it is.

You mean like the Star Spangled Banner? Francis Scott Key dashed that one off in a few hours.

What about The Battle Hymn of the Republic? That was dashed off in one night. America The Beautiful was written in an evening after the author vacationed out west and was astounded by the beauty of the mountains there.

And, if we are getting off the topic of patriotic songs, Marty Robbin's El Paso was written while he was driving along a highway one day. He pulled off the road to finish the song, because "he wanted to know how it would end.

There are plenty of songs that were written in one day. Sometimes the magic works.

51 posted on 06/27/2002 3:58:54 PM PDT by No Truce With Kings
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To: No Truce With Kings
I thought that the star spangled banner was written as a poem, and put to music quite a while later.

The other songs you mentioned are not particular favorites of mine, but point taken. ;)
56 posted on 06/27/2002 6:24:18 PM PDT by lawgirl
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