Star Spangled Banner, rough draft??

[TC]

I saw this and though it was kind of interesting.

http://www.theonion.com/video/restoration-of-star-spangled-banner-uncovers-horri,17691/?ref=d

[Pumpkin]

Re: Star Spangled Banner, rough draft??

The Onion is more false than msnbc :D. Can you satire?

[studemax]

Re: Star Spangled Banner, rough draft??

The Onion is more false than msnbc

You meant bullshit when you typed false, right?

[pdub]

Re: Star Spangled Banner, rough draft??

Yeah, The Onion puts a comic twist on everything, but there are more verses to the song. I saw a video on the news some weeks ago where a guy stood up and sang the second verse, and I guess nobody (to include the TV audience) had ever heard it before:

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

[tiresmoke!]

Re: Star Spangled Banner, rough draft??

Yeah...I'm thinking the ACLU would scream bloody murder if someone was to sing all 4 stanzas today...in PUBLIC.


As an aside, just think how screwed some of the folks singing the National Anthem before major events would be....particularly the attention freaks that can't refrain from breaking out into vocal histrionics(oxygen mask, anyone? LMFAO).

Actually read a copy of the Onion while laid over in Madison, Wi. Friday evening....made for a good "throne room" read.

Smoke

[pdub]

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Smoke, lots of folks have a bit of an objection to The Onion, but everybody has their personal tastes. I happen to just love it, every time. I can dig it.

RE the National Anthem as a song, ....I'm sure no musical artist, and not being one, I can't imagine having to stand in front of a microphone at a venue and sing it without music, nothing to follow. And in any sort of big venue, the sound you put into the mic comes back at you through the PA speakers some time later, like an echo in a canyon. Distacting as hell. I don't see how anybody can do it well, but somehow real singers do pull it off.

I know we have Canadians here, and it's no barb at all, but I think the Canadian National anthem is .... well, I can't follow it during the song. It wanders and it....well, I can't follow it. I'm, glad we have the Star Spangled Banner as ours. "And the home of the brave."

Has anybody been watching the history of America on the History Channel?" Wow, that is a great series of shows. I failed history in high school because way back then they just wanted us to memorize dates. There was no story to go with it. The History Channel series puts some realism to it. Wow, that stuff really happend and real people, our ancestors were involved. Neat stuff.

[studemax]

Re: Star Spangled Banner, rough draft??

I saw a video on the news some weeks ago where a guy stood up and sang the second verse, and I guess nobody (to include the TV audience) had ever heard it before:

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Saw the vid, and was deeply moved.