On Aug 5, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Tobiah <t...@tobiah.org> wrote:

 Ever since grade school, I've heard that
> Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem.  I guess I always assumed that he
> wrote the music.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Anacreon_in_Heaven


> What's funny is that there are a lot of people in the US that
> could hum the entire tune but probably not make it through all of the lyrics.
> Very few could recite any of the other verses.

Or even tell you, without thinking about it for a while, what the first verse 
means 




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