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Happy 200th Birthday to our national anthem and also to the big flag sewn by Mary Pickersgill and her daughters! While he was being held by the British 200 years ago this morning, Francis Scott Key was putting the finishing touches on his poem, Defense of Fort McHenry. Most people dont know that the melody of our anthem is from an old British drinking / party song. Try to sing these words of To Anacreon In Heaven with the melody of the SSB. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Anacreon_in_Heaven And here is the way the original song sounded; youtube/watch?v=3l-n64NWHS4
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:28:46 +0000

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