On This Day In History
He also was the original “One Hit Wonder”.
frank: The first verse, yes. NOBODY knows the other verses. And I, like all non-professional singers, have to drop down an octave at “And the rocket’s red glare..”
Posted by Oink
09/14/2005 at 06:38 AM
I wonder how the story would go if it were put into todays perspective?? Probably totally politically incorrect me thinks!! Damn dummycraps wouldn’t stand for that kind of patriotic rubbish!! And there would be an independent counciler appointed to investigate Keys role and culpability in the poor Brits having to bomb Ft. Mchenry. And where the hell was the president when all this bombing was going on?? Why didn’t he give to order to evacuate?? How many innocent lives were lost because they counldn’t get out in time. Hmmmmm, and why was Key, (a rich white lawyer) allowed to stay safely aboard the British ship. I smell racismmmmmmmmmmmmm here!! Would this song even pass the global test??? I don’t think it should be sung anymore in public as it might offend some of our gentle mooslime brothers and sisters, and oh my gawd, is God mentioned in any of the other verses?? I’m thru venting now!!!
Yeap!! I knew it...there He is, last verse just like I suspected...GRRRRRRR
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!This last verse probably needs to be banned all together. It is way to offensive!!!
ALL friggin’ liberal
prefer “America the Beautiful”. The National Anthem is 
ewwwww! to militaristic. Try “The Marseillaise” on for size:
Arise children of the fatherland
The day of glory has arrived
Against us tyranny’s
Bloody standard is raised
Listen to the sound in the fields
The howling of these fearsome soldiers
They are coming into our midst
To cut the throats of your sons and consortsTo arms citizens Form your battalions
March, march
Let impure blood
Water our furrows***********************************
Those Frogs had balls during The Reign of Terror!
Posted by Oink
09/14/2005 at 09:07 AM
To Anacreon in Heav’n,
Where he sat in full glee,
A few Sons of Harmony
Sent a petition
That he their Inspirer
And Patron would be;
When this answer arrived
From the Jolly Old Grecian:
“Voice, Fiddle, and Flute,
No longer be mute,
I’ll lend you my name
And inspire you to boot,
And besides I’ll instruct you,
Like me, to intwine
The Myrtle of Venus
With Bacchus’s Vine.”The first verse of “To Anacreon in Heaven”, where the Anthem got it’s melody. Try to sing THAT!
Oink-
I’m with OCM on “America the Beautiful”, and politics has nothing to do with it. Yes, the SSB is militaristic, but what could be more American than that? It’s just too damned hard to sing. And I cringe every time I hear some 13-year-old girl sing it before a sporting event, trying to imitate Whitney Houston’s godawful vocal gymnastics. If you sing it, stick to the melody (if you’re capable of it).
On the other hand, “America the Beautiful” is pretty easy to sing. And, Ray Charles did a better job on that tune than anyone has ever done with the Star-Spangled Banner.OINK singing the Frog anthem?
Pig Spit?
This thread has gone to the pigs! SOOOO-WEEE!
Grease that pig! Fry up that bacon!
The War of 1812 nearly destroyed our young nation. It was a very close thing for a bit there in the late summer and early winter.
I lived in Baltimore for 14 years, many of them around the Inner Harbor and East Baltimore areas. At the time of the War, the Harbor itself was larger, its shorelines often big mud flats. After the Great Fire of 1904 (does every city have a Great Fire of XXXX?), the debris was pushed into the Harbor thus making it smaller. The Inner Hargbor is quite a jewel, now.
Across the lower section or East Baltrimore, just north of the Harbor, in an area then called Hampstead Hill but now known as Patterson Park, was a small lake. It was connected to the Harbor by a small stream that ran under the streets under a series of at-grade bridges. In that lake was a secret weapon - the Baltimore Clippership shipyard. The small, fast ships, used to smuggle goods past the British blockades, were built with hinged masts. The masts were laid back against the aft section and tugged under the streets into the Harbor from which they did some daring deeds.
Across the high ground of the Park area was a line of cannon to protect the shipyard. This battery prevented the British from landing and moving to outflank the Fort. This is what happened to Washington when Fort Washington, on the Potomac, fell after a few shots fired by the British squadron. They landed at Brandywine and attacked the City, chasing Pres Madison from his dinner table. The British officers sat down to finish the President’s dinner, then burned the White House. The British did land 4700 regulars and marines further down the penninsula formed by the Patapsco and Back Rivers, to the south east of the City, but were forced to withdraw by American regulars and militia at the Battle of North Point, commemorated by a monument in front of City Hall. For a good tour of the North Point battle, see http://www.bcpl.net/~etowner/npbattle.html
I agree that the SSB is damned difficult to sing, but in a proper band arrangement, conducted with dignity, it will stir your blood like few other tunes.
Kindest regards to all the crew, by the way. It’s good to be back.
Then there’s God Bless America I’m thinking of Kate Smith’s rendition. Yes, I know she was Canadian. I recall that the Philadelphia Flyers used to use it as their “secret weapon” for their home games when they really had to win. They played it instead of the SBB before the start of the game.
Glad to see you back, Tann. Good to see Oink back too.
No palpable connection, OCM. Just a case of great minds working in synchronicity.
Quite apart from that, we knew it would make your day.
Aux armes citoyens
Formez vos bataillons
Marchons, marchons
Qu’un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons
Posted by Oink
09/15/2005 at 05:11 PM
