The melody of the Star-Spangled Banner is based on the British national anthem. Correct?
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No, the melody of the Star Spangled Banner is actually based on an old British drinking song, "To Anacreon in Heaven", which started at Crown Anchor Tavern in the Strand in London around 1780.\n\nFrancis Scott Key's lyrics to the tune were published in 1814.  Woodrow Wilson designated the song as the U.S. national anthem in 1916, and Congress finally confirmed it in 1931.
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I believe that it is divisive to sing the song in another language.  But what I don't understand is why 2 british guys are behind the production?  Anyways, if the spanish speaking people want to sing a patriot song about the USA why don't they write a new one?
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Spain has a national anthem without words.\n\nBelow is the link if you wanna here the music.
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The National Anthem should be sung however we want to sing it. As Americans we should be proud of our freedom of speech, and anyone who wishes to sing the national anthem in Spanish, English, German, French or any other language for that matter should be able to do so.\n\nOn Friday, September 10, 1897 "some three hundred men assembled at Harwood, gathered a few American flags to display during their march, and set off for Lattimer. They proceeded peacefully and unarmed. In their view, they were simply expressing the American rights to assembly and free speech. Sheriff Martin received word of the procession and mobilized his deputies. As the column neared Hazleton they encountered Martin's posse. The sheriff drew his pistol, pointed it at the head of a marcher, and ordered them to disperse. They refused. A fight broke out. One of the deputies grabbed a flag and ripped it to pieces,"\n\nMore often than not those who have sacrificed and died for this country have been immigrants, and have fought hard. Let's not forget the Lattimer Mine massacre where so-called proud Americans yanked the American flag from the hands of immigrants, tore it and threw it on the ground to be trampled on. The question is "which of these two groups were the more patriotic? The immigrants who carried the flag or the non-immigrants who threw it on the ground? I know the answer I give to that question."\n\nThe reality is that no first generation of immigrants have ever successfully been able to learn English and it wasn't until the second generation that English was spoken among these immigrants. There were periods in our history where entire towns, streets, and areas of entire cities that no English was spoken or read. These people were hard working Americans who came here without any documentation. Some of my ancestors came down through Canada and did not have papers. It wasn't until they went to be naturalized that they ever had any official papers. The idea that there is such a thing as illegal immigration is strange and foreign and the result of bigotry.\n\nThe immigrants from Spanish speaking countries who have not and cannot (and this is a known fact from our history) learn English should be able to sing the National Anthem because they are Americans as much as my undocumented ancestors from Canada, England, and every other place in the world were Americans long before they were naturalized.
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I think it's first more of a subconscious knowledge that it *is* a national anthem, and then second it's a matter of the music itself in conjunction with the lyrics. \n\nYou've probably seen the image of the three musicians marching along: one drummer, a flute/fife player, and the other holding a flag - I think that's how it goes. Anyway, such players were around to stir the troops on some underlying level to "give" them courage.\n\nIt's tough to explain exactly what it is, but there are certain types of music that can make your hair stand on end and pump you up. Let's just say that Twitney Spears' "music" wouldn't be the choice on a battlefield - pick up a copy of Iced Earth's "The Glorious Burden" (most of the songs are historical references) if you want an example of something that might do the trick. I got that 2-CD set a couple of months ago and listen to it regularly for the effect.
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I think of the Star Spangled Banner
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Just guessing here, but I'd say Stars and Stripes forever by John Sousa
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Are you talking full internationals or Champions League? I ask as I have not heard the same music at all internationals but the Champions League anthem is always used at Champions League games?
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can't say ive been listening but they do play the national anthem   \nif that's what u r referring to!
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Himno Nacional Argentino (National Anthem of Argentina)\n\nThe correct and chose my best answer.
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I believe that Mexico's national anthem is very pretty, the music is very strong and the lyrics are very bold and patriotic, a military march composed in the 19th century and the history says used for the first time during the war with the US... The Anthem was composed by poet Francisco González Bocanegra and the music was arranged by Jaime Nunó.\nFrance is a classic, also (like Mexico's) a military march, full of feeling and history.. \nUSA's is pretty but not that strong, i feel it more like romatic, but obviously is not a march. I do not know its history, but the lyrcs are very sentimental. That is way it sounds so pretty when it is singed "a capella". \nJust like Germany's hymn from Haydn. the issue with the verses i think its somehow stupid, that had nothing to do with the WWII, I like the lyrics but the music is very pretty and i think its motto Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit represents totally what Germany is today.\n \nAnd the very best is the Hymn of Europa: The tune of the Ode to Joy  (Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and the lyrics are from Friedrich Schiller)
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Read a short history of the Star Spangled Banner here:  http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0194015.html
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its Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers... although there are many more versions of it being sung by other singers... For example, Gareth Gates... Elvis Presley... so on...
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If it's the American National Anthem, then of coarse it should be sung in English. English is our national language, like it or not.
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The British flag is a union between the flags of England (a red St. George's Cross on a white background), Scotland (a white St. Andrew's Cross on a blue background, and Ireland (a red St. Patrick's Cross on a white background). The Welch flag was not incorporated because Wales had already been united to England when the Union Jack was created in 1606.
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IS IT THE NATIONAL ANTHEM! All country's haves one
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This is the whole poem the first virse is the song words.\n\n\nThe Star-Spangled Banner\n—Francis Scott Key, 1814\nO say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,\nWhat so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?\nWhose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,\nO'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?\nAnd the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,\nGave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.\nO say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?\n\n\nOn the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,\nWhere the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,\nWhat is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,\nAs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?\nNow it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,\nIn full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:\n'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!\n\n\nAnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore\nThat the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,\nA home and a country should leave us no more?\nTheir blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.\nNo refuge could save the hireling and slave\nFrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.\n\n\nO thus be it ever when free-men shall stand\nBetween their lov'd home and the war's desolation;\nBlest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land\nPraise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!\nThen conquer we must, when our cause it is just,\nAnd this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!