![]() Historic events make way for art that last centuries. Behind the lyrics of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' By Jessie Campisi and AJ Willingham, CNN It’s a song every American has heard countless times and can probably recite by heart. The Star-Spangled Banner, national anthem of the United States, with music adapted from the anthem of a singing club and words by Francis Scott Key. Oh, say, can you see, by the dawns early light, What so proudly. ![]() Though popular among the American people, “The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t adopted as the official anthem of the United States until Congress and President Herbert Hoover signed it into law in 1931.ĭespite what exactly makes an anthem, one thing is for certain. It would take quite a few years for the song to build its legacy, however. Long assumed to have originated as a drinking song, the melody was taken from the song To Anacreon in Heaven. After a century of general use, the four-stanza song was officially adopted as the national anthem by an act of Congress in 1931. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, Oer the ramparts we watched, were. The Star-Spangled Banner, national anthem of the United States, with music adapted from the anthem of a singing club and words by Francis Scott Key. The song’s name came about due to a brave music printer who took the liberty of changing the title to “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The rest, of course, is history. Between their loved home and the wars desolation Blest with victory and peace, may the heavn-rescued land. Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand. Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave. included the heroic verses in their copies. And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave. It was printed under the title of “Defence of Fort McHenry,” and newspapers all over the U.S. The lyrics come from the ' Defence of Fort M'Henry ', 2 a poem written on September 14, 1814, by 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Outer Baltimore Harbor in the Patapsco River during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Despite the strange nature of the accompanying music, the song quickly became a hit. Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro the perilous fight, Oer the ramparts we we watched were so gallantly streaming And the rockets red glare, the. 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is the national anthem of the United States.
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